Cancer Tumor. Imaging tests show pictures of the inside of the body. For example in case of blood cancer there is no tumor involved.
If the cancer has spread to surrounding tissues or organs the 5 year survival rate is 82. While devising a treatment plan for cancer the likelihood of curing the cancer has to be weighed against the side effects of the treatment. A tumor marker is anything present in or produced by cancer cells or other cells of the body in response to cancer or certain benign noncancerous conditions that provides information about a cancer such as how aggressive it is whether it can be treated with a targeted therapy or whether it is responding to treatment.
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Normal cells can turn into tumor cells due to a genetic mutation a change in the normal function of genes genes are the basic units of heredity passed down from your mother and father. Cancer is a genetic disease that is it is caused by changes in dna that control the way cells function especially how they grow and divide. The aim of cancer treatment is to remove all or as much of the tumor as possible and to prevent the recurrence or spread of the primary tumor. If the tumor has not spread from the organ where it started the 5 year survival rate is 94.
