Cancer is known as one of the major killer diseases across the world. Though it can be cured, cancer is a huge problem, the effects of which stay long after it is cured.

Though doctors like talking about treatment, they will not be able answer all the queries of a patient or a relative of a patient. Keeping this in mind, we at cancermanual.com, have found consolidated information that should help you understand things why cancer is caused and how it is treated!

We have three basic sections, on this website:

Cancer Basics:
Cancer Basics deals with most basic cancer questions.
How does cancer occur?
How does it spread?
Is is it hereditary?
Does cancer kill?
And importantly what is cancer?

This entire section deals with informing you about cancer. And if you are wondering about what are the different kinds of cancer, then switch to the next section.

Types of Cancer:

Because of the way cancer affects human bodies, cancer is said to be of different types. Most of these different types of cancers are named according the parts they affect in our bodies. Some such types discussed here are: Prostrate Cancer, Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Lymphoma, Bladder Cancer, Uterine Cancer, Skin Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Leukemia, Kidney Cancer, Ovarian Cancer and Stomach Cancer.

Sometimes different types of cancer cells grow rapidly or sometimes they affect the body slowly. Depending how they affect, each of these cancers are again divided into different types.

Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer:

Diagnosis of the correct type of cancer is the first important part of the treatment. Without perfect diagnosis, it is almost impossible to treat any disease properly, leave alone cancer.

In this section, canermanual.com tells you how important it is for Early Detection of Cancer and how to Prevent Cancer. An important process of diagnosis, called Staging, is also explained here.

Apart from these, Treatment methods like Surgery, Radiation, Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Hormone Therapy are also introduced.

We at cancermanual.com believe that this information will be more than helpful to you. However, please note that the information given here has not been validated by any medical expert.