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Overview of Cancer
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Overview of Cancer
What is cancer?
Why does cancer kill you?
Where in your body can you get cancer?
What are the most common cancers?
Defenses Against Cancer
How does your body defend against cancer?
Why do the body’s defenses sometimes fail?
Development and Spread of Cancer
How does cancer start?
How does cancer spread?
Diagnosis of Cancer
How do doctors diagnose cancer?
What tests can screen for cancer?
What tests can diagnose cancer?
Staging tests
Paraneoplastic Syndromes
What is a paraneoplastic syndrome?
What are the symptoms of paraneoplastic syndromes?
General symptoms
Skin symptoms
Neurologic (brain, spinal cord, and nerve) symptoms
Endocrine (hormone system) symptoms
Other symptoms
Risk Factors for Cancer
What are genetic risk factors for cancer?
What are environmental risk factors for cancer?
What are other risk factors for cancer?
Symptoms of Cancer
What are the symptoms of cancer?
Pain
Bleeding and blood clots
Weight loss and feeling weak
Muscle and brain symptoms
Lung symptoms
Warning Signs of Cancer
What are the warning signs of cancer?