“Dating” Cancers

Abstract

Cancer is a generic term for a large group of diseases characterized by the growth of abnormal cells beyond their usual boundaries that can invade adjoining parts of the body and/or spread to other organs. There are risk factors that increase a person’s chance of developing cancer. Knowledge would be beneficial as a areminders that very likely the person is about to have an “appointment” or “date” with a forth-coming diseases. Thus, effective preventive and curative interventions would ideally be planned in favor of so-called precision medicine.