{"id":21122,"date":"2025-01-29T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21122"},"modified":"2025-01-29T18:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:25:41","slug":"7-big-questions-about-cancer-answered-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21122","title":{"rendered":"7 Big Questions About Cancer, Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Can pollution cause it? What about inflammation? And how do tumors spread? Here\u2019s what scientists are learning about this complex disease.<\/p>\n

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Every day, billions of cells in our body divide or die off. It\u2019s all part of the intricate processes that keep blood flowing from our heart, food moving through our gut and our skin regenerating. Once in a while, though, something goes awry, and cells that should stop growing or die simply don\u2019t. Left unchecked, those cells can turn into cancer.<\/p>\n

The question of when and why, exactly, that happens \u2014 and what can be done to stop it \u2014 has long stumped cancer scientists and physicians. Despite the unanswered questions that remain, they have made enormous strides in understanding and treating cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a lot less fearful about telling patients what we do and don\u2019t know, because we know a lot more,\u201d said Dr. George Demetri, senior vice president for experimental therapeutics at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the biggest questions about cancer that scientists have started to answer.<\/p>\n