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Cancer is a cell mutation where the cell reproduces rapidly and too much. Then those new cells become cancer cells and continue to split out of control. Yet, the body does not need so many of one type of cell so quickly. The cancer cells are large in quantity and take over that area, causing pressure on other normal healthy cells. Those tissues are overthrown by the cancer ones and it off-sets the balance of the body. This is dangerous because you need a specific amount of everything in your body to work, so you have many cancer cells and less of the healthy cells and can be very hazardous to countless of daily functions necessary to life.
There really is only one Cancer, and that's just cancer, no matter where it is in your body. It just affects different cells. i.e.- Lung cancer is a mutation in lung cells, and Brain cancer is a mutation in brain cells. The only two categories cancer is divided into generally are malignant and benign. Malignant cancer will carry the cancerous cells by the bloodstream to other parts of the body, and the cancer will then affect that spot as well. This cancer is slightly more dangerous than benign cancer, which will only stay in the organ where it first started and will not travel through the body.
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