Favian Marquez Comm100w Kathryn Kahn 9-17-14 Fact Essay Hearing the word cancer you automatically think death. It is a word that many people are frightened of. They are terrified that it can happen to them or someone they know. Cancer is everywhere today, it can attack you from anywhere at any time. It is a disease that does not discriminate; it does not care if you are white, black, brown or yellow. It does not care if you are rich or poor, if you are good or bad, it is not biased. More than one million people in the United States have cancer each year. Cancer is a general name for more than 100 diseases. Webster’s Dictionary defines Cancer as a serious disease caused by cells that are not normal and that can spread to one or many parts of the body. How does cancer start? Cancer starts when cells in a part of a body start to grow out of control. It can grow in one place or it can grow to many other places in the body. Normal body cells divide and multiply to make new cells when they die. People over the age of 45 and older have 90% of all cancers such as skin, breast, lymphoma, …show more content…
About 1 in 8 (12%) women in the US will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime.” Breast Cancer is a disease that almost always affects women but in some rare cases men can get it too. The article defines it as “a malignant tumor that starts in the cells of the breast. A malignant tumor is a group of cancer cells that can grow into (invade) surrounding tissues or spread (metastasize) to distant areas of the body.” The female body is made up of Lobules, Ducts and Stroma. The lobules are a milk producing glands that are all over the breast. Ducts are tubes that carry milk from the lobules to the nipple. Stroma is a fat and connective tissue that adjoins the ducts, lobules, blood vessels and lymphatic