Many are suffering from this disease, many innocent lives are being lost just because of this disease. In fact, you may be a victim or may know a loved one who's also going through this ordeal. The question is, what is cancer? what actually cause cancer? what trauma does these victims go through? and can one prevent him/herself from getting cancer at all?
To this make simple, cancer is just an overgrowth or an abnormal growth of a particular cell in the body. Cells come together as a group to make up a tissue and it is from a group of tissues that we can get something we call "an organ," for instance, the heart, lungs, kidney, eye, liver and etc. One can be diagnosed of cancer when the cells of the body or some of these organs multiply more than it has been programmed to...
Cancer doesn't have a direct cause. Nothing actually causes cancer because it's a genetic problem. But factors such as infections, radiations, inheritance risk, obesity, alcohol intake, substance smoking, physical agent(chemical products), the use of hormonal therapy and among others can cause cells to take a wrong turn.
Cells are meant to multiply or replicate to replace the ones that die day in day out. However, there are certain proteins or mechanisms that control the multiplication process and this include the DNA repaired genes, proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. Proto- oncogenes has a duty of stimulating live healthy cells to multiply and as they multiply, tumor suppressor genes controls the growth by instructing the cells to stop producing when it has produced enough. DNA repair genes comes in when cells are in a way damaged in order to repair them. As cells are being instructed to multiply, they multiply to the required number needed and then, caused to stop multiplying and as some gets injured when performing their various activities, just like human beings, there's a nurse or a doctor (DNA repair genes) available to care for them and the process goes on and on and on.
Once an individual becomes predisposed to one or more of these factors stated above, the DNA repair genes and tumor suppressor genes becomes inactivated which provides room for more damage and alters the function of the cell to cause continues growth. Proto-oncogenes then changes to oncogenes, a protein structure that instructs cell to produce more without stopping and then boom, there is an overgrowth at the site affected which is scientifically termed as CANCER
People with cancer, go through a lot. Living with the thought of dying causes them to be so depressed and withdrawn. Not to talk of the unbearable pain they go through. Their pain is much so severe that adjuvant therapies are administered together with pain medications. I'll say the strongest people are those with cancers because it's not easy, most especially for those at the terminal stage. Many endure physical, psychological, emotional and sometimes social trauma as a result of cancer. Knowing very well that you have few days or months left to live is something that I myself don't think I can deal with. Sickness itself is not something we wish for, let alone, a kind of sickness that comes with a package.
What these people need from us is to be there for them, support them and to understand what they are facing. Let's all help make life better for these people. Whether a relative or not, let's all be there for them. At least, that's the little we can contribute in helping them fight against cancer. Also, in as much as we enjoy life, we have to also keep in mind that we are all "potential patients", yes, everyone has a possibility of getting cancer. It's can happen to you, it can also happen to me too. But that's not the problem, the problem is how we can prevent this disease from getting to us. Well....I guess all we must do is to live a good and a healthy life. Let's avoid sedentary lifestyle, avoid contacts or the use of cancer causing agents and if we happen to part of a family that has a history of cancer, let's take really good care of ourselves. Cancer is close to our doorsteps but we can still keep our doors closed...
