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OncologySevere
Malignancy
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine · Oncology
Severe
Severity
Common — cancer affects roughly 1 in 5 people during their lifetime worldwide
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Malignancy develops when accumulated genetic mutations within a cell disrupt the normal controls on cell growth and division
- 2allowing the cell and its descendants to multiply uncontrollably and evade the immune system's usual surveillance. These mutations can be inherited
- 3arise spontaneously with age
- 4or be triggered by exposure to carcinogens such as tobacco smoke
- 5ultraviolet radiation
- 6certain chemicals
- 7and some viral infections. Chronic inflammation and a weakened immune system can also create conditions that favor the development and progression of malignant cells.
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