Cancer information

Bowel Cancer is one of the most common cancers in the UK, and can be hard to treat because it is often diagnosed late. Scientists want to know what event causes a normal, healthy bowel cell to turn cancerous and start to form tumors. They have to identify which cells within the intestine are vulnerable to cancerous changes. as I was reading I learned, when a stem cell divides in two, one half becomes another stem cell, while the other "daughter" cell has begun the transformation into the cell needed to form another tissue type. A key question is whether cancer starts back at the stem cell change, or later on, in one of the cell types it produces.

I found this information really interesting because I never really knew how many different types of Cancer there was, It was also interesting reading about how scientist think it is formed.