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7 Warning Signals of Cancer
- Change in bowel habits.
- A sore that does not heal.
- Unusual bleeding or discharge.
- Thickening or lump anywhere.
- Indigestion or difficulty in swallowing.
- Obvious change in wart or mole.
- Nagging cough or hoarseness.
- Cancer is a clonal disorder. all cells in a cancer arise from a single cell in which the normal mechanisms for regulation of proliferation are disrupted.
- Cancer cells have several features that distinguish them from normal counterparts.
- Immortality.
- Rapid Growth.
- Abnormal Cell-Cell Interactions.
- To Prevent cancer cells from multiplying, Invading metastasing & ultimately killing the host.
- Fast growing cell kill
- Tumour.
- Wbc.
- Mucosal Lining.
- Hair follicles.
- Only percentage cell kill.
- 1010 =10 gm – 107after 1 cycle(3 log kill).
- 107-108 regrowth between two cycles (1log regroth).
- 1 Deally 1010 – 100 would require 5 treatment cycles.
Cycles of Chemotherapy
Gompertzean Kinetics and Log Cell Kill
