Juntendo Medical Journal
Online ISSN : 2188-2126
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Federal Headship of Carcinogenesis - Hereditary & Environmental Cancer -
OKIO HINO
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2017 Volume 63 Issue 5 Pages 381-383

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Cancer in its early stages are approximately 1 cm. Actually, we can now detect cancers are as small as 0.5 cm, and it is safe to say that almost all cancers up to 1 cm can be completely and effectively treated. The weight of a 1-cm cancer is 1 gram. The size of a single cancer cell is about 20 microns. This means that it takes about 109 cancer cells to make up a 1-cm cancer. In a time where a cancer with 109 cells can be treated 100%, you can imagine how silly it is for a scientist to be desperately looking for a single cell of cancer. It is said to take about 20 years for a clinical cancer to develop. If someone discovers cancer at the age of 40, it means that cancer budded when the patient was 20 years old. In fact, only one in thousands of cancer buds fully blossoms. Not very many do, and the same could be said about humans.

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