What is tumor, cancer or carcinoma ?

What is tumor, cancer or carcinoma actually?
A tumor is any growth of abnormal biological tissue that occur in living things (can occur in humans, animals or plants)

This tumor itself can be grouped into 2:
1. Benign tumors

2. Malignant tumors / cancer / carcinoma

The only difference between the two types that are characteristic of growth.


Cancer has the following characteristics:

1. Aggressive

Physiologically, the human cells have a system to maintain the number of cell body, or her term Density Dependent Growth. In cancer cells this mechanism does not work. proto-oncogen which should serve to multiply the cells if there is a shortage of cells mutate to become oncogene. The existence of this oncogene which eventually led to uncontrolled growth over the normal limits.



2. Invasive

The next character of the cancer is invasive, cancer cells are so destructive n attack neighboring cells. Unlike the benign tumor cells that tend to be limited to certain areas.



3. Metastasis

Metastasis is one of the most important features and dangerous cancer dr. Metastases in the mean can be spread to other parts of the body through blood vessels or lymph vessels. At this point, the cancer cells have spread to other parts of the human body dr.



In patients with benign tumors, usually handling is to make the appointment of tumor cells exposed to reply, this is not so difficult to do even better supervision remains should always be done because after all the cancer cells have great potential to be malignant. That's why you should immediately consult a doctor if there are lumps, abnormal lumps in your body