Is it cancer?

Progress toward modernization led to a shift of diseases. If the first infectious disease is the leading cause of death ever, now illness due to old age and the process of degeneration the more prominent. Deaths due to coronary heart disease and stroke is increasing, and tumor disease or cancer is one of degeneration disease which is also feared. known two kinds of tumors, that's benign tumor and malignant tumor called a cancer. Benign tumors do not much bother, and slow growth. Conversely malignant tumors, because its growth is very rapid and uncontrolled, it will be very annoying, can spread to other organs, and cause death.

 
In America, found more than 600,000 new cancer cases each year, or as much 1,600 people per day, and one in five Americans die of cancer.
 
Cancer can arise in all human body such as breast, cervix, uterus, liver, stomach, colon, pancreas, lung, prostate and others. general, cancer patients who come see her doctor already in an advanced stage, so treatment becomes very difficult, especially when it is spread (metastasis).
Cancer can be treated with perfect when the disease was found at an early stage.
The problem is the symptoms of cancer itself is not real, patient complaints are generally similar to other defect that is not malignancy, except when illness has become severe. This is where the role of screening is important.
 
Who can get cancer?
Everyone can develop this disease, no matter rich or poor, white or black, fat or thin, male or perumpuan, but cancer is generally more common in elderly people, between 45-64 years old, except leukemia.
It has been proven that the existence of a family history of cancer, such as breast cancer, colon and uterus, the offspring will have a have a high risk for these cancers.

In the environment we live in this modern world, with the industrialization and the quantity of food that have been processed first, then found a lot of substances or objects that a carcinogen that can cause cancer. For example: X-ray radiation and ultraviolet rays from the sun; preservative substances and coloring substances, chemicals from industry, are like aromatic amines, asbestos, tar (carbon black), black smoke, alcohol and drugs. So is infection by the virus can cause cancer, such as hepatitis B and C viruses (liver cancer), papilloma virus (cervical cancer), Eipstein Barr virus (nasopharyngeal cancer), sarcoma virus, the AIDS virus and others.

Is CANCER can be avoided?
According to the National Academy of Sciences in America, some of the things mentioned below can be done to prevent cancer.1. Reduce the fat in foods2. Consume more foods containing fiber, such as vegetables, fruits, boiled rice.3. consume more foods rich in beta carotene, like carrots, spinach, fruits orange.4. Reduce smoking and preserved foods, salted or smoked the meat and fish.5. Avoid the sun by wearing hats and sun protection lotion.6. Avoid changing sexual partners.7. Avoid alcohol.8. Attention to suspicious changes in your body, like a lump in the breast, in skin or moles or changes in skin color, prolonged diarrhea or constipation and others.9. Early detection of cancer with screened examination, especially for high risk groups such as men over the age of 50 years for prostate cancer, family history for breast cancer, colon and uterus, women over 40 years for cervical cancer, people with hepatitis B or C for cancer liver.

Cancer screening
Examination screened for early detection of cancer have been carried out. One of the famous is the Pap smear, for early detection of cervical cancer.
Another screening mammography examinations for breast cancer detection, but unfortunately there are only mammography equipment in major cities only.
Lately examination Tumor Markers in clinical laboratories have begun a lot and it is recommended by experts and researchers.
Examination screened with tumor markers can not be done in bulk, but only useful for people who have high risk.
For example: 
* PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen), for prostate cancer, for men over the age of 50 years, which is a high risk group for prostate cancer is)
 * Vague Blood for the detection of colon cancer or colorectal.
 * Anti-EBV VCA LGA and Anti-EBV EA LGA for nasopharyngeal cancer, particularly for residents of Southeast Asia, where prevalence of nasopharyngeal cancer is high, especially in the Malay race, Chinese, Dayak and Kadazan.
 * AFP (alpha-fetoprotein) for the detection of liver cancer, for people with hepatitis B and C

Test examination panel filter TUMOR
* Pap smear for women over 40 years.
 * PSA for men over 50 years
 * AFP for people with hepatitis B or C
 * Anti-EBV VCA and LGA
 * Anti-EBV EA LGA for smokers, especially the Malay race, Chinese, Dayak and Kadazan 
* Vague Blood for people with a family history of colorectal cancers.