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Factors – The Causes Of Cancer

Friday, June 4th, 2010

 The Causes Of CancerCause of cancer usually can not be known for certain because the causes of cancer can be a combination of a set of factors, genetic and environmental. However there are several factors that allegedly increase the risk of cancer, as follows:

* Factor descent
Genetic factors cause some families are at higher risk for certain cancers when compared with other families. Type of cancer that tends to run in the family is breast cancer, ovarian cancer, skin cancer and colon cancer. For example, the cancer risk for women increased 1.5 s / d 3 times if his mother or sister had breast cancer.

* Environmental Factors
- Smoking cigarettes increases the risk of lung cancer – lung, mouth, larynx (vocal cords), and bladder.
- Ultraviolet rays from the sun
- Ionizing radiation (which is carcinogenic) is used in x-ray beam generated from nuclear power plants and atomic bombs that can reach very long distances. For example, people who survived the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, a high risk of cancer of blood cells, such as leukemia. (more…)

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Prevention and Treatment of Cancer servix

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

HPV and cervical cancer

Cancer servixThe main cause of cervical cancer is infection with HPV. HPV is the sexually transmitted disease more frequent today.

The man acts as a carrier of the disease without even knowing it, in most cases.

Infection occurs from sexual contact of a woman and a man carrying the virus that sowed in the lining of the cervix.

In most cases the defense systems, the agency charged with eliminating the virus and the infection resolves without sequelae.
But the misfortune is that the HPV virus has mechanisms to attach to epithelial cells and transform them into malignant cells.

The virus has a protein capsule that allows you to adhere to the epithelial cells of the cervix.

Cervical cancer begins to develop when the virus manages to insert its genes into the genes of the infected cell, so the virus remains while the cell is alive. (more…)

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