Cancer is a general term for more than 100 diseases characterized by abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells. The resulting malignant growth or in other words tumor can invade and destroy surrounding healthy normal tissues. Cancer cells from the tumor can spread through the bloodstream or lymph system to start new cancers in other parts of the body.

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