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Video: Amazing video of women with pink gloves dancing to bring up cancer awareness\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazing video of women dancing to bring up cancer awareness and to show how important it is to know how bad cancer is. All the employees dancing and all the nurses and the head nurse getting in on the action to dance for entertain and also to give a message. Watch and be amazed as the dance to bring about and send a message to those who do not know how serious cancer really is.<\/p>\n

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Cancer starts when cells in a part of the body start to grow out of control. Cancer cell growth is different from normal cell growth. Instead of dying, cancer cells continue to grow and form new, abnormal cells. Cancer cells can also invade (grow into) other tissues, something that normal cells can\u2019t do. Growing out of control and invading other tissues are what makes a cell a cancer cell.<\/p>\n

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Cells become cancer cells because of changes to their DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). DNA is in every cell and it directs all its actions. In a normal cell, when DNA is damaged the cell either repairs the damage or dies. In cancer cells, the damaged DNA is not repaired, but the cell doesn\u2019t die like it should. Instead, the cell goes on making new cells that the body doesn\u2019t need. These new cells all have the same damaged DNA as the first cell does.<\/p>\n

People can inherit abnormal or faulty DNA (it\u2019s passed on from their parents), but most DNA damage is caused by mistakes that happen while a normal cell is reproducing or by something in the environment. Sometimes DNA damage may be caused by something obvious like\u00a0cigarette smoking\u00a0or\u00a0sun exposure. But it\u2019s rare to know exactly what caused any one person\u2019s cancer.<\/p>\n

In most cases, the cancer cells form a tumor. Over time, the tumors can invade nearby normal tissue, crowd it out, or push it aside. Some cancers, like\u00a0leukemia, rarely form tumors. Instead, these cancer cells involve the blood and blood-forming organs and circulate through other tissues where they grow.<\/p>\n

Cancer cells often travel to other parts of the body where they can grow and form new tumors that crowd out normal tissue. This happens when the cancer cells get into the body\u2019s bloodstream or lymph vessels. The process of cancer spreading is called\u00a0metastasis<\/i>.<\/p>\n

No matter where a cancer may spread, it\u2019s always named based on the place where it started. For instance, colon cancer that has spread to the liver is called metastatic colon cancer, not liver cancer. In this case, cancer cells taken from the liver would be the same as those in the colon. They would be treated in the same ways, too.<\/p>\n

Different types of cancer can behave very differently. For instance, lung cancer<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0skin cancer<\/span>\u00a0are very different diseases. They grow at different rates and respond to different treatments. This is why people with cancer need treatment that\u2019s aimed at their kind of cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

A tumor is an abnormal lump or collection of cells, but not all tumors are cancer. Tumors that\u00a0aren’t\u00a0cancer are\u00a0<\/span>called\u00a0<\/span><\/span>benign<\/span>. Benign tumors can cause problems \u2013 they can grow very large and press on healthy organs and tissues. But they\u00a0can’t\u00a0grow into (invade) other tissues. And they\u00a0can’t\u00a0spread to other parts of the body (metastasize). These tumors are seldom life threatening.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cancer is the general name for a group of more than 100 diseases. Although there are many kinds of cancer, all cancers start because abnormal cells grow out of control. Untreated cancers can cause serious illness and death.<\/span><\/p>\n

The body is made up of trillions of living cells. Normal body cells grow, divide to make new cells, and die in an orderly way. During the early years of a person\u2019s life, normal cells divide faster to allow the person to grow. After the person becomes an adult, most cells divide only to replace worn-out or dying cells or to repair injuries<\/span>
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Cancer is the name given to a collection of related diseases. In all types of cancer, some of the body\u2019s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cancer can start almost anywhere in the human body, which is made up of trillions of cells. Normally, human cells grow and divide to form new cells as the body needs them. When cells grow old or become damaged, they die, and new cells take their place.<\/span><\/p>\n

When cancer develops, however, this orderly process breaks down. As cells become more and more abnormal, old or damaged cells survive when they should die, and new cells form when they are not needed. These extra cells can divide without stopping and may form growths called tumors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many cancers form solid tumors, which are masses of tissue. Cancers of the blood, such as leukemias, generally do not form solid tumors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cancerous tumors are malignant, which means they can spread into, or invade, nearby tissues. In addition, as these tumors grow, some cancer cells can break off and travel to distant places in the body through the blood or the lymph system and form new tumors far from the original tumor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike malignant tumors, benign tumors do not spread into, or invade, nearby tissues. Benign tumors can sometimes be quite large, however. When removed, they usually don\u2019t grow back, whereas malignant tumors sometimes do. Unlike most benign tumors elsewhere in the body, benign brain tumors can be life threatening.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cancer cells differ from normal cells in many ways that allow them to grow out of control and become invasive. One important difference is that cancer cells are less specialized than normal cells. That is, whereas normal cells mature into very distinct cell types with specific functions, cancer cells do not. This is one reason that, unlike normal cells, cancer cells continue to divide without stopping.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, cancer cells are able to ignore signals that normally tell cells to stop dividing or that begin a process known as programmed cell death, or apoptosis, which the body uses to get rid of unneeded cells.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cancer cells may be able to influence the normal cells, molecules, and blood vessels that surround and feed a tumor\u2014an area known as the microenvironment. For instance, cancer cells can induce nearby normal cells to form blood vessels that supply tumors with oxygen and nutrients, which they need to grow. These blood vessels also remove waste products from tumors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cancer cells are also often able to evade the immune system, a network of organs, tissues, and specialized cells that protects the body from infections and other conditions. Although the immune system normally removes damaged or abnormal cells from the body, some cancer cells are able to \u201chide\u201d from the immune system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tumors can also use the immune system to stay alive and grow. For example, with the help of certain immune system cells that normally prevent a runaway<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>immune response<\/span><\/a>, cancer cells can actually keep the immune system from killing cancer cells.<\/span><\/p>\n

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