Ever wondered why so many people around us are getting detected with cancer these days? Growing up, we had heard about worrying diseases like malaria, jaundice, heart attacks but cancer was believed to be a disease that happened to a few. So have the cancer cases suddenly gone up or there are better diagnostics available? Well, there is verified data that suggests death from cancer has gone up in the past few years in India. But what cause cancer cells to activate in normal bodies?
In simple words, cancer cells are normal cells of the body which transform into a malignant clone either due to an internal abnormality in the body or an external factor that influences the body over a prolonged period of time. These factors cause irreversible damage or change in the normal DNA of the cell. These cells with the damaged or changed DNA become free of the general control measures that are present over a normal cell in the body. The loss of growth control over these cells lead to uncontrolled multiplication leading to what we see and feel as tumours / cancers.
