Informative Speech On Lung Cancer

Cancer causes a lot of deaths in this world, also a lot of sadness for many families. There is many types of cancer, such as lung cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, brain cancer, and leukemia. All of these cancers can be very dangerous, and can kill you. I feel like people should know, and also care about how dangerous cancer is. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death statistics say, but there might be a cure for it, if you find out right when you begin to get it.
Lung cancer is caused from smoking, or you can just get it out of nowhere. Anyone can get lung cancer. There is treatments that will help cure lung cancer. A newer type of lung cancer treatment, called targeted therapy, may be the best treatment for lung cancer. Targeted therapy blocks the growth and spread of cancer by preventing cancer cells from dividing or destroying them directly. Because targeted therapy specifically blocks out cancer cells, it can avoid harm to healthy cells. Targeted therapy may have fewer side effects than standard chemotherapy, that is why they are saying it might currently be the best cure.
There is several types of liver cancer. The most common type of liver cancer is hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Part of the central nervous system. The brain is the control center for important functions of the body, including speech, movement, thoughts, feelings, memory, vision, hearing and a lot more. Tumor cells may travel short distances within the brain, but usually will not travel outside of the brain itself. During the treatments for brain cancer, the doctors will have to continuously check the size of the tumor, to make sure it doesn't grow. The average survival rate for all malignant brain tumor patients is 34.2 percent. Brain tumors are the second leading cause of cancer-related death in people under the age of 20, and the leading cause of cancer-related death in people under the age of