Disease without boundaries

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - 13:21 in Health & Medicine

Cancer occurs when cells are triggered to grow abnormally. Those triggers could include genetics, radiation, and carcinogens - and they go off with alarming frequency. If current figures hold, approximately one in four Canadians can expect to die of cancer, according to the Canadian Cancer Society.

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