Posts Tagged ‘reproduce’
Lung Cancer
Cells are the smallest living units of the human body. One function is to reproduce and die when no longer useful. This process is very neat, in time and space, so there is always that allows the appropriate number of cells for each stage of life.
When this multiplication of cells occurs in an uncontrolled manner, forming lumps. These masses are called tumors.
There may be benign and malignant tumors. Benign tumors are those that do not spread to other areas and do not compromise a person’s life. Read the rest of this entry »
Ovarian Cancer
Women have two ovaries that are in the pelvis and that communicate with the rest of the female reproductive tubes. Its main function is to reproduce and, subject thereto, the production of female hormones. The ovaries have a coating formed by epithelial cells. Malignant transformation of these cells appear the vast majority of ovaria
n cancers.
It develops mainly in women between 50 and 70 years, globally, about 1 in every 7 women develop the disease. It is the third most common cancer of female reproductive system, but instead more women die of ovarian cancer than any other affecting the reproductive system. Read the rest of this entry »