| Cancer is a disease that affects many individuals | | | | be in the form of a physical examination. A doctor |
| every year. Cancer can affect anyone regardless of | | | | generally feels for hard spots and lumps during a |
| race, age or gender. Cancer occurs when cells in the | | | | physical exam. Lumps and hard spots on the body |
| body become abnormal and reproduce when they | | | | may mean that the patient has cancer. Other tests |
| should not reproduce. Abnormal cells are supposed to | | | | are often ordered to diagnose or rule out the disease |
| die and new healthy cells are supposed to replace | | | | when lumps or hard spots are found on the patient. |
| them in a healthy individual. A person who has this | | | | Yearly cancer checks might also include a cat scan or |
| disease has abnormal cells that continue to reproduce | | | | an MRI. A CAT scan or MRI can detect any |
| until there is not any room left for normal cells. | | | | abnormality in the body. Yearly cancer checks might |
| Many individuals discover that they have cancer by | | | | also include x-rays or ultrasounds. Cancer checks |
| accident. Many individuals do not have any symptoms | | | | might also include blood tests and urine tests. |
| of the disease when they discover that they have | | | | Getting checked for cancer is a very important part of |
| cancer. No symptoms often mean the cancer is in its | | | | recovering from the disease. When the disease is |
| early stages. When this disease is caught in the early | | | | diagnosed early on the person has a much greater |
| stages it is often reversible. | | | | chance of living than if the disease is diagnosed in the |
| A person should visit his doctor yearly for yearly | | | | later stages. It is much simpler to kill one tumor full of |
| cancer checks. Yearly cancer checks can prevent the | | | | cancer cells than it is to destroy many tumors. |
| disease from overtaking the body. Cancer checks can | | | | |