It’s possible that my greatest responsibility in participating in Movember is to raise awareness about cancer. Although my appearance is laughable and I hope the blog has been entertaining I would like to do my part to help educate about cancer.
Over the last couple of days I have had many conversations about what I’m doing and surprisingly enough about cancer in general. I am not scientist but here are some basics about cancer.
Cancer covers a group of diseases where abnormal cells undergo uncontrolled growth. It can be caused my external or internal factors. External factors include chemicals, tobacco, infectious organisms and radiation. Internal factors include congenital mutations, metabolic mutations and immune conditions to name a couple. Cancer is treated a number of ways: surgery, chemotherapy, biologic therapy, hormone therapy and targeted therapy.
Cancer is indiscriminate. It effects all ages, genders and ethnicities. Although it is more common in individuals over 55 years of age, which represents 78% of all diagnosed.
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