Miguatemala Health Blog

After cancer and cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death. In the Netherlands in 2005 even more men died from cancer than from heart disease (source Central Statistical Office). Cancer is a disease characterized by the following symptoms:

1. There are cells that multiply uncontrollably and continue to do so.
2. The proliferating cells are spreading into surrounding tissues and have established damage (invasive growth or infiltration).
3. The proliferating cells also spread to distant sites in the body (metastasis). This is via the lymphatic (lymfogene metastasis), via the blood (hematogenous metastasis) and present in body cavities (eg abdomen).

In the Netherlands each year approximately 75 000 cases of cancer. In 10% of these cases has already been a form of cancer diagnosed. At 66 000 was the first cancer was diagnosed. Die every year in the Netherlands about 38 000 people with cancer. Currently it is estimated that about 400 000 people in the Netherlands cancer.

In men with particular types of cancer for the following:

1. Prostate Cancer
2. Lung Cancer
3. Colorectal cancer

When women are the most common:

1. Breast cancer
2. Colorectal cancer
3. Lung Cancer

Species cancer in children and adolescents are the most frequent leukemia, lymphomas and brain tumors.

Causes mutations
Central to the development of cancer are defects in the DNA. These defects are sometimes called mutations. These can initially be obtained in the following ways:

1. Genetic mutations
2. Acquired mutations
1. Infections
2. Physical factors
3. Chemicals

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