Simply put, cancer is a cellular malfunction. When we are suffering from cancer, the human body loses normal cellular controls, which results in the malignant cell’s unregulated growth. These cancer cells have a lack of differentiation and invade local tissue, travel elsewhere and metastasize. The disease itself begins by one cell that mutates or changes. The abnormal cell maintains that mutation through the cell’s reproduction process despite the efforts of the human body’s defense system, which tries to eliminate abnormal cells. These mutated cells (resulting from abnormal DNA) then travel through the body, setting up residency in one or more of the body’s organs. There are now well over one hundred types of cancer that can exist within the human body.
Since there are so many types of cancer, each with their own abnormal DNA and different set of signs and symptoms, it is impossible in this short review to cover all of them. From my experience at the John Hopkins Hospital, the most common symptom that I observed was the loss of energy.
Definition from Neil Solomon, M.D.,PHD
