Cancer: the abhorrent disease

In my midterm project I’m going to talk about a serious disease, cancer. Cancer is a collection of related diseases, is when some of the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues. In Chile cancer is a high prevalent disease.

Every year die around 22 thousand people. About 20-25% of the total deaths are by cancer.

Many cancers form solid tumors, which are masses of tissue. Cancers of the blood, such as leukemias, generally do not form solid tumors.

Cancerous tumors are malignant, which means they can spread into, or invade, nearby tissues. In addition, as these tumors grow, some cancer cells can break off and travel to distant places in the body through the blood or the lymph system and form new tumors far from the original tumor.

In my presentation I’ll talk with more details and more interesting datum.