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Why Nobody Want To Talk About Cancer Cancer is a disease that no one wants to thinks about. Even so, everyone still needs to be aware about its symptoms, because cancer is most curable if diagnosed and treated in its earliest stages. Cancer can cause almost any sign or symptom. The signs and symptoms will depend on where the cancer is, how big it is, and how much it affects the organs or tissues. If a cancer has spread, signs or symptoms may appear in different parts of the body. Those signs and symptoms can mislead to wrong diagnosis. Once obvious signs and symptoms demonstrate there is little chance for cure thus dramatically reduces the cancer survival rate. Therefore, the key is to seek immediate medical advice as soon as you notice some of the signs and symptoms of cancer. What are some general cancer signs and symptoms? You should know some of the general signs and symptoms of cancer. But remember, having any of these does not mean that you have cancer; many other thing...

What is cancer? Cancer happens when cells become abnormal and grow, multiply and spread out of control. Normal body cells grow and divide and know to stop growing. Over time, they also die. Unlike these normal cells, cancer cells just continue to grow and divide out of control and don’t die when they’re supposed to. Cancer cells usually group or clump together to form tumors.  A growing tumor becomes a lump of cancer cells that can destroy the normal cells around the tumor and damage the body’s healthy tissues. Sometimes cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel to other areas of the body, where they keep growing and can go on to form new tumors. This is how cancer spreads. The spread of a new place in the body is called metastasis.   What causes cancer? There are about 200 different type of cancer. They can start in any type of body tissue. Although we probably inherit faulty genes that trigger normal cells developing to cancerous cells, most can...

Dr Joseph Natsah of General Hospital Kachia in Kaduna State, has advised youths against tobacco smoking, saying it leads to impotence. Natsah said in an interview on Tuesday in Kaduna that tobacco smoking results in low sperm count, weak erection and impotence. He warned girls involved in smoking to desist from the habit as it would also prevent them from either conceiving or having still birth. Natsah said tobacco smoke generally has adverse effect on every organ of the body, including the immune system. The medical practitioner listed some of the conditions generated by smoking to include coronary and heart disease,  as well as breathlessness and influenza, He also said that smoking causes cancer, such as leukaemia, cancer of the bladder, throat and stomach. Also, a laboratory technician, Miss Mercy Onu said smoking was contributing to higher percentage of deformed sperms and impotency. She also said it contributed to “painful ulcers along the digestive tract and build up fatty d...