Cancer (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread to other locations in the body via lymph or blood). These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from...
Cancer
Notable people with this condition
Medicine
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Includes Diseases:
- Hematological malignancy
- Leukemia
- Choriocarcinoma
- Glioma
- Mesothelioma
- Sarcoma
- Lymphoma
- Carcinoma
- Stomach cancer
- Prostate cancer
Cause Of Death
People Who Died This Way:
- Alice Vonnegut
- John Tufts
- Wally Schirra
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Kathleen Antonelli
- Heath Lamberts
- Sivuca
- Putte Wickman
- Mary Augusta Hickey Kennedy
- Charles Gray
Includes causes of death:
- Throat cancer
- Bone cancer
- Lung cancer
- Breast cancer
- Oral cancer
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- Adrenocortical carcinoma
- Anal cancer
- Appendix cancer
- Glioblastoma multiforme
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Medical condition in fiction
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- Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
- Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.