Necessity for Awareness of cancer
Dr.Kut | Feb 12, 2010 | Comments 0
Although there has been so much research being done in the field of medical science in regards to cancer, this disease is still growing very rapidly and one death out of four deaths is due to cancer in the USA only. It has been considered that the possibilities for men to get cancer are also increasing at a very high rate.
The National Cancer Institute is working very hard to create awareness among the people related to cancer ant to try and eradicate cancer by the year 2015. In order to get rid of cancer and to prevent people from getting cancer, everybody must be aware of the effects that our present lifestyle has in our system in general.
The most common cancer at the moment are prostate cancer in men, which accounts for 33% of the cancers, then you have lung cancers at about 13%, colon and rectal cancers are also at a high of about 11%, urinary and bladder cancers are at 8% and skin cancers at 5%. There are others like the Kidneys, leukemia, and oral cancers that are less in percentage.
In women, you can find breast cancer to be the higher at 32%, lung cancers at 12% and colon cancers at 11%. There are also many cancers of skin, ovaries and urinary bladder that are also low in percentage.
There are many organizations working very hard to create awareness of simple aspects of trying to cure this disease before it is too late. One important factor is the detection of the disease in time. Tests like health screenings are lifesavers. The more you know about the disease the better it is for you to be able to see any symptoms that may be related to the development of cancer in your body.
One of the simplest ones is a lump in any part of the body. It is not necessary that if you if you are developing a lump it means that you have cancer, however, you can always get yourself checked up to rule out any possibility. Other symptoms may include a painful or unusual wart, sores that do not seem to be healing, indigestion and weight loss, unusual bleeding and fatigue.
However, these symptoms are so common in many diseases that determining cancer is not so easy. Tests and screenings need to be done by doctors in order to make sure that you are not having any cancer problems.
However, contacting you doctor and allowing him to take full precautions to determine the reasons behind any kind of symptoms that he may feel that could be related to cancer can be very important for your health and well being.
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