What is Cancer

Cancer, also known as malignancy, is described as an abnormal growth of cells. It can affect any person of any age group in any organ or tissue of the human body. There are more than 100 types of cancer which includes breast cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer and lymphoma etc. however the symptoms and signs of cancer are seen according to the type of cancer. It is caused by the abnormalities by some environmental changes in the genetic material of the cell.
Causes of cancer
Cancer doesn’t have any specific symptoms but still there are few common symptoms in the human body suffering from cancer. They are as follows:
• Benzene and other chemicals
• Certain viruses
• Radiation
• Sunlight
• Tobacco
• Smoking and intake of alcohol
These are some of the causes however the causes of cancer are unknown.

Symptoms of cancer

Cancer doesn’t have any specific symptoms and it depends on the cancer like gall bladder cancer doesn’t show any symptoms unless it reaches the advance stage.
Liver cancer has symptoms like coughing, chest pain, shortness of breath etc.

Following are some of the common symptoms of cancer.

• Chills
• Fatigue
• Fever
• Loss of appetite
• Malaise
• Night sweats
• Weight loss

Understanding the diagnosis of cancer
Cancer such as skin Cancer, breast Cancer, mouth Cancer, testicles Cancer, prostate Cancer, and rectum Cancer etc. can be detected by regular examination and screening measures. The testing should be some whenever you find any pain in the body or lymph found in any part of the body. Cancer is detected befor the medical examination of tumor in thebody as some symptoms are almost same and cancer is diagnosed after all the other medical testing in the body.
Cancer is examined with thorough study of each part of the body along with the previous medical history. Any abnormalities in Lab studies of blood, urine, and stool are also diagnosed thoroughly.