Cancer-based Disease

A Cancer-based Disease is a disease due to malignant tumors (composed of cancer cells).

• Context:
  • It can be treated with Cancer Therapy.
  • It can go through Cancer Stages.
  • It can be analyzed by Oncologists performing oncology research, such as a oncology clinical trial.
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• Example(s):
  • Carcinoma;
  • Sarcoma;
  • Melanoma;
  • Lymphoma;
  • Leukemia;
  • …
  • Lung Cancer.
  • Breast Cancer.
  • Prostate Cancer.
  • Brain Cancer.
  • Liver Cancer.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Cardiovascular Disease.
  • Renal Failure.
• See: Benign Tumor.

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References

2014

• http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20140803-the-bloom-of-cancer
  • QUOTE: … I’d been ill for several years due to tumours growing like trees in my body, their branches twisting my organs until they stopped working. Many surgeries later, the tumours had all been removed except for small pieces, which I had hoped would die on their own. But instead they returned, stronger and hungrier, consuming everything, consuming me. My body was not owned by me during that time. … Cancer is a lonely business. People don't really understand what cancer means: sometimes it means you will die.

2011

• (Haussler, 2011) ⇒ David Haussler. (2011). “Cancer Genomics." Invited Talk at the 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2011). doi:10.1145/2020408.2020414
  • QUOTE: Throughout life, the cells in every individual accumulate many changes in the DNA inherited from his or her parents. Certain combinations of changes lead to cancer. … The second challenge is to tackle the combinatorics of personalized, targeted, combination therapy in cancer.

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