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Cancer is the term used to define a group of diseases having in common the conversion of a normal cell into a diseased cell, able to proliferate uncontrollably and indefinite, with no organization whatsoever and regardless of the work normally meet in the tissue to which it belongs.

As the tumor mass grows, it can alter the structure and function of normal tissues. Some transformed cells are able to invade nearby structures and spread to distant organs traveling through the bloodstream or lymphatic, where they can form colonies called metastasis. The potential to metastasize specifically characterizes called malignant tumors, benign tumors do not have the capacity to metastasize, but may still be a problem, less for their aggressiveness by their location: for example, brain tumor, even as benign and very slow growth, can not increase much in size without giving overt signals, and complete removal may involve a complex challenge. Some begin tumors, left to their evolution, come to becoming malignant.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Argentina: one of every four people diagnosed with this disease throughout his life. The predominant varieties in our country, in order of decreasing frequency, are: for men, lung cancer, colon and rectum (large intestine), prostate, leukemia and lymphoma, for women, breast, uterus (cervix and corpus uteri), lung, leukemias and lymphomas.