Cancer in Women

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This study provides a clearer understanding of this mysterious killer disease, through a familiarization on how it occurs, the mechanism and factors involved, and recent and significant discoveries to its management and approach. This study uses mainly the descriptive-normative method in collecting information from existing studies, reports, and articles gathered and interpreting their data. Information includes statistics from medical and scientific journals and the National Cancer Institute. It summarizes and crystallizes the findings of these sources in achieving above-stated objectives.

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"Cancer is a malignant neoplasm or new growth of cells, which, unlike normal cells, have less or lost differentiation among themselves and now spread out and tend to invade surrounding tissues waywardly and at greater speed (Lexico Publishing Group LLC 2004). Cell mutation happens when there is a change in the nucleotide sequence of the DNA coding for a specific gene or in the physical arrangement of its chromosomes. That change may be harmful, beneficial or neutral and inherited as autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive or X-linked traits. Medical experts agree that many cancer-predisposing mutations are autosomal dominant, wherein cancer susceptibility occurs. A person may have an autosomal dominant mutated gene without getting sick but simply as a carrier (National Cancer Institute 2003)."

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