Ethics in the World

Chronic Disease

Clinton Bernard

University of Phoenix

SCI 100 Paradigms of Health

Professor David Hayhurst

April 25, 2007

In this text the Chronic Disease called Cancer will be defined and exposed for the killer that it takes lives in America everyday. Looking into the depths of the disease should give a broader spectrum of the class of diseases that plague America and the citizens that reside within this great nation. The research from scientist and experts abroad will outline the present and future of this disorder that shakes the life and death of many families of all races in the world.

WHAT IS CANCER?

This question has been asked by many families at the wrong time, often too late for prevention and treatment. The answer is very simple for everyday physicians and treatment specialist but, not for the average American citizen. The word Cancer means a category of diseases characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to spread, either by direct growth nearby tissue or implantation into distant sites by metastasis (cancer cells transported into the bloodstream). The Greek term for Carcinoma is the medical term for a malignant tumor from epithelial cells. Cancer cells are classified by the type of cell that resembles the tumor. There are seven classifications for these cells including Carcinoma, Lymphoma, Sarcoma, Mesothelioma, Glioma, Germinoma and Choriocarcinoma. These words are foreign to most but, scary to most and even fatal to some people who obtain one of these forms of Cancer.

Cancer is really, a disease of the genes. In order for cells to start dividing randomly, genes that regulate cell growth must be damaged. The more frequently the cells divide the more likely that variant will amplify into a clone. More often skin and blood cancers are more prevalent than bone cancers. This is just a brief summary defining Cancer, one of medicines greatest puzzle and worst enemy.

Bad Luck or Bad Behavior

Many factors have been liked to cancer and the risk factors that contribute to the syndrome. Certain lifestyle choices will increase chances of developing cancer. Hundreds of studies have confirmed the association of smoking tobacco and lung cancer. Many experts feel that smoking causes cancer in other sites as well. Cancer