Some Hidden Truths about Cancer

Abstract

The definition of cancer is a clinical term for a disease indicating
a set of symptoms and death associated with growth of tumors
in the host. Whereas cancer is always a systemic disease, tumor
may not be. This seemingly obvious difference often is ignored
by most clinicians and all patients. To them, a discovery of a
tumor means a diagnosis of cancer, and many times a sentence
to eventual death. Successes of survival after treatment is always
labeled in social media as “miracle”. In reality, I have seen many
times (as often as 30% cases) of not so deadly tumor cases. The
success for survival from a simple surgical removal of tumor is
not miracle but a natural consequence of a not so deadly tumor.
In other words, not all tumors are highly malignant. In fact, the
malignancy of tumors has such a broad distribution ranging from a
benign growth (or pre-cancerous growth) to limited local invasive
growth to widely metastasized growth. Hardly any two tumors
are identical in its malignancy.