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Section B
Cancer
Where Does It Occur?
What Is It?
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http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/world/
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Cancer
  What is it?
–  Group of diseases
–  Uncontrolled growth
–  Spread (invasion, metastasis)
–  Multiyear process
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Key Points – Section B
  Rising cancer incidence is a global problem
  US cancer incidence and death rates for a
number of cancer sites is declining
  Cancer is a group of diseases characterized
by uncontrolled growth and progression
from pre-cancer to invasive, malignant
cancer
  Development of a malignant tumor can
take 10-20 years making attribution of
cause to effect difficult
Continued
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