Thread by @drpenking

WHAT HAPPENS DURING CANCER

Imagine a group of secondary school students observing morning devotion. They are well spruced up, in form and are completely harmless. This is how the cells in your body are. They will likely remain in this shipshape state in the absence of any

external insult.

Now imagine a mad cow suddenly runs towards the direction of those students. What do you expect to see? The reaction will be panic, anxiety, commotion. The students will take to their heels, they will bump against each other. Some will try to run into the

classrooms,destroying the furniture; some into the school farm, destroying the crops. There will be a frank stampede. Some students may even lose their life in the process. Note that these students were initially harmless before the arrival of the "initiator"

This is exactly...

what happens in cancer. Cancer is quite different from other diseases like malaria. In malaria, a foreign body is fighting your system. But in cancer, your own cells which have become "mad" for some reason, so to speak, are the ones fighting you. Normal cells of your body are i

n form, with constant interaction with one another. Their rate of growth and multiplication is strictly controlled. This occurs through a complex process mediated by certain genes in your body e.g P53 and RB gene.

Whenever there is a mutation in those genes and in the presence

of certain environmental factors, the cells go haywire. The rate of multiplication of the cells is no more controlled. The cells enter a state of stampede, multiplying uncontrollably. In some cases, the mad cells remain in their area of origin(benign tumours e.g fibroadenoma of

the breast and uterine fibroid). In other cases, the mad cells may spread to other sites of the body causing severe problems (malignant tumours also known as cancer e.g cervical cancer)

The cervix is a tubelike structure which is the lower portion of the uterus (womb). It's like

a doorway to the where the baby forms. For some reason, it is one of the most susceptible parts of the body of a woman to undergo tumorogenesis and subsequent malignant transformation

Every Nigerian woman is susceptible to cervical cancer but the risk significantly increases at

age 45 . Cervical cancer is associated with lacklustre sequelae like infertility, decrease in quality of life, paralysis and death.

Fortunately enough, the causative virus, Human Papilloma Virus (HOV) has be vaccinated against.

Please get your HPV Vaccination today.

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