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What Is Cancer?
Cancer is actually a group of many related diseases that all have to do with cells. Cells are the very small units that make up all
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things, including the human body. There are billions of cells
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each person"s body. Cancer happens when cells that are not normal grow
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spread very fast. Normal body cells grow and divide and know when to stop growing. Over time, they also die.
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these normal cells, cancer cells just continue to grow and divide out of control and don"t die. Cancer cells usually group together to form tumors (肿瘤).
A growing tumor becomes a lump of cancer cells
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can destroy the normal cells around the
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and damage the body"s healthy tissues. This can make someone very
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Sometimes cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel to other areas of the
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, where they keep growing and can go on to form new tumors. This is how cancer
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. The spread of a tumor to a new place in the body is
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metastasis (转移).
People with cancer may feel pretty sick at times—but cell usually still do lots of normal things.
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they are very sick, kids and teenagers with cancer may still be able to go to school. They may be tired or bruise (出现青肿) easily, but they
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sometimes go to camp, movies, and sleepover (在外过夜的) parties. People with cancer still like the same things they did
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they got sick.
Cancer in kids is rare—but today, many kids who do get cancer go on living normal lives. The number of kids who beat cancer goes
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every year because of new cancer treatments. So a lot of kids with cancer will some day drive cars, go to college, have careers, and even get
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and have families of their own.