Knowing more about cancer will help you cope, and perhaps this will help the person with cancer. There are many things that cause cancer. I'm going to go through four large categories. Then I'll discuss the process of cancer, particularly how it develops. First, however, let me define what I mean by cancer.
Cancer is basically the uncontrolled growth of cells.
In doing so, these aggressively growing cells take the resources needed by other cells. We Add The first of the carcinogens, the things that cause cancer, are some of the chemicals that we add to our environment. These include chloroform, formaldehyde, benzene, PCBs, DDE and ethylene dibromide. Some of these may not be familiar to you. Chloroform was used in medicine for many years.