Cancer Therapy & Radiation Oncology

Cancer

Cancers may be benign or malignant. Benign cancers fail to spread to other tissues and is non-life threatening. Malignant Tumors are invasive and spread to different tissues within the area. Diverse kinds of tumors are present till date and many are beneath research investigation. Most cancers are a disease involving abnormal cell growth spread to different parts of the body. There are over distinct varieties of cancer, they may be divided into groups, each is assessed with the aid of the type of cell this is first affected. Cancer harms the body while cells divide uncontrollably to form masses or lumps of tissue this will cause an increase known as a tumour. A few Tumors are named after discoverer, which include Wilm's Tumour (a childhood kidney cancer), Hodgkin’s disorder (a form of lymphoma), and Kaposi’s sarcoma (cancer of blood vessels, uncommon besides associated with immunodeficiency and HIV contamination). Some Cancers are divided into groups according to the type of cell they start from.

• Carcinomas are cancers of epithelial cells
• Sarcomas represent tumors of connective tissues
• Leukaemia  and Lymphomas refer to Cancers of blood cells