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Cancer Information
What is cancer?
Cancer is an abnormal growth of cells. Cancer cells rapidly reproduce despite restriction of space, nutrients shared by other cells, or signals sent from the body to stop reproduction. Cancer cells are often shaped differently from healthy cells, they do not function properly, and they can spread to many areas of the body. Tumors, abnormal growth of tissue, are clusters of cells that are capable of growing and dividing uncontrollably; their growth is not regulated.
Oncology is the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
- Types of Cancer
- There is no one single cause for cancer. Scientists believe that it is the interaction of many factors together that produces cancer.
- Clinical Studies
- This is a list of selected studies of new anticancer agents under evaluation within the Institute of Drug Development.
- Cancer Diagnosis
- CTRC is steadfastly committed to providing each patient with personalized, comprehensive and compassionate care.
- Cancer Treatment
- Cancer is treated in several ways, depending on each person's medical condition and type of cancer. Common treatments involve chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
- Categories
- Cancers are classified either according to the kind of fluid or tissue from which they originate, or according to the location in the body where they first developed.
- Online Resources
- The content provided here is for informational purposes only, and was not designed to diagnose or treat a health problem or disease.
- Cancer Terms
- What do the terms benign, malignant, locally invasive, metastatic, and primary tumors.
