What Is Thyroid Cancer?
4. Cancer
Cancer is still, in many respects, a mystery to the medical community. Doctors still do not know precisely what causes some to get it and others not to. While there are risk factors that can increase a person’s chance of developing cancer, there is no sure-fire test to predict it.
Cancer develops in the body where cells begin to multiply unexpectedly. As they continue growing at an uncontrolled rate, they take over body systems and damage them in the process. Tumors develop and when cancerous, or malignant, they are able to jump to other tissue, spreading the infected cells.
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