Saturday 26 November 2011

A Simple Explanation of Cancer Tumors


Cancerous cells (cells that are dividing out of control) occur in our body every day. Normally our cells have mechanisms to watch for DNA mutations and kill these cells, but these mechanisms can be damaged. If the cell's own defense mechanisms fail, the immune system is the second line of defense of the body, and it will recognize this out of control cell and kill it. However, the immune system is made up of specialized cells that live in the same environment as the rest of our body's cells, which means the immune system may have been weakened, too.

If the cells of the immune system are weakened by the same process that caused the cell abnormality, then the immune system will not be able to kill the mutating cells, and you will get cancer. The cancer cells will normally travel to the weakest and most acid organ in your body and stay there, and you will develop a tumor. The cancer tumor grows because the cells continue to reproduce using the same damaged DNA. In many instances cancerous tumors have been growing for as much as 5 to 15 years before diagnosis.

A typical cancer tumor is made up of a large number (usually billions) of cancer cells surrounded by tissue. Now cancer cells cannot grow tissue - the tissue or tumor is formed as our body tries to wall off and contain the abnormal cells from the rest of its cells to limit the damage. Unfortunately this does not kill the abnormal cells, so the cancer cells continue to divide out of control and the tumor grows.

Sooner or later you or your doctor will feel a lump or you will experience abnormal bleeding or pain, and the tumor will be discovered. At this point your doctor will want to perform some sort of exploratory procedure, usually a biopsy. What is a biopsy? A biopsy is literally poking a hole in the tumor tissue to remove a sample of the cells inside the tumor for testing in the laboratory.

Unfortunately, poking a hole in the tissue that is encapsulating the cancerous cells (the tumor) is not really a good idea. In fact, putting a hole in the tissue around the tumor frequently results in the spread of the cancer cells. Without this procedure the cells might have otherwise remained contained inside the tumor tissue.

Surgical removal of a tumor always has this same effect. The surgeon may get most of the cancer cells, but some of the cells inevitably escape, and these escaped cancerous cells travel to another spot in the body and another tumor begins. This is called metastasis, meaning the cancer has spread. And we all know people who have been told that "we got all the cancer" only to have it reoccur a few months or years later.

So what do you do? Avoid any procedure which might cause the spread of the cancer cells unless your situation is literally life and death at that very moment. Removal of a tumor may be a good idea under some circumstances, for instance certain brain cancers, but understand that in most instances a tumor will rarely kill you even if it is malignant (growing).




If you plan to use natural or alternative cancer cures, start researching your treatment options immediately, you may not have a lot of time. Find one or two good cancer books on Natural Cancer Cures and read up on all your natural cancer treatment options, then pick an option and a regimen, and start treatment as soon as possible. There are a great number of very effective alternative cancer treatments available today, and they work very well. And remember, a diagnosis of cancer is not automatically a death sentence. Cancer can be cured.





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