What is cancer?

Cancer cells are different than normal cells. Your cancer type depends on the type of cell it started in. Some cancers spread through the blood or circulatory system to other parts of the body. We have information about why cancers continue to grow. And why some might come back.

Staging is a way of describing the size of a cancer and how far it has grown.

The grade of a cancer tells you how much the cancer cells look like normal cells. The grade gives your doctor some idea of how the cancer might behave.

DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. It is like a code containing all the instructions that tell a cell what to do. It is made up of genes. Your genes carry all the information that makes you, you.

Cancer and its treatments can cause changes in the body. Cancer can affect the blood and circulatory system, the lymphatic system, the hormone system and the immune system.

There are different types of cancer statistics. They help us to describe how many people have been diagnosed with cancer, living with cancer or have survived after treatment.

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