• Question: How many different types of cancer are there and which one is the most serious ?

    Asked by J.Styles to Greg, Daniel, Giovanna, Kelly, Lowri on 9 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by Jsoriano.
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      Daniel Biggs answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Good Morning, this is a difficult question to answer accurately but I will try my best. There are more than 200 types of cancer and any of them can become very serious. Treatment is helped by early diagnosis and correct medication. There is a lot of research into the genetics of cancer, as it can arise from your own DNA becoming faulty over a person’s lifetime and developing into tumour.

      With treatment and thanks to research many are being cured.

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      Greg Irving answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      There are over 200 different types of cancer. Doctors use codes to classify all the different types of cancer based on the type of cancer cell and the cancer location. Take a look at the link below to see some of the codes ! There are loads of them !

      http://codes.iarc.fr/abouticdo.php

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      Giovanna Tancredi answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      Hello, unfortunately there are too many. Medical researchers are doing their best to understand how we could prevent someone from having it , and looking for the best treatments. In the past decades there has been an huge increase in people that win their battle against cancers, this is why we all should do our best to support medical research.

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      Lowri Evans answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      You’ve had some great answers from the other scientists 🙂 It’s fantastic to see that science is making big strides to curing cancer, even if there’s a long way to go

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