Understanding Cancer - Part 1
Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 15:21
in Health & Medicine
What is cancer? Everyone knows that it is a terrifying disease and has some ideas about a mass of cells that grow uncontrollably but I get the feeling that many people don’t quite understand how it actually happens. I think that even from my biochemistry and cell biology lectures at uni I’d still have a very woolly appreciation of what’s important when it comes to cancer. In the following posts on this topic I’ll talk about cancer therapies, leukemia and other types of cancer, as well as the mechanisms of some of the more “popular” cancers (colon, breast, cervical and prostate) and what is meant by predisposition to certain cancers. View the original post to keep the authors happy, and subcribe to follow the series "Understanding Cancer"