What Is The Importance Of Cancer

Cancer is one of the most deadly diseases in the worl and this year alone there will be will be 1,685,210 new cancer cases in the United States alone and out of those 595,690 will die (Cancer 2016). That is why it is critical for me to understand everything there is to know about cancer, considering I am going school for a Physicans Assistant. That is why I chose to do my extra credit paper on it because we learned about cancer in class and it relates to my major in many different ways.
Cancer cells occur when the cell cycle has an imbalance in it and it stops the cell from going the whole way thorugh cell division which then cancer can occur (Merck 2009). This is important to me because someday I will see a cancer patient, or have to treat them and I …show more content…
Programed Cell death is what mutated cells go through to get rid of them from the body. But cancer cells do not go through programed cell death they skip it, that is why cancer is so deadly because the body doesn’t realize that it is cancerous till its too late. For example leukemia and lymphomas are cancers of the blood and the blood-forming tiissues and the cells of a persons immune system (Merck2009). Since these cancers are in the blood and affect blood vessels a persons body cant identify that they are cancerous because each person has cells called “ Marker Cells”. Marker cells are cells that detect viruses, bacteria, or different type of diseases, which they then help fight off the infection. Now cancer cells are different they cannot be detected by these marker cells, and the body takes them as a normal white blood cell. The cancer cells slowly kill the normal functioning cells, and replacing them with cancerous cells. Until they are either killed by chemotherapy, or radation, and in the worst cases the person can no longer fight and they end up