Summary
Cancer as a disease has challenged physicians and biomedical scientists due to its remarkable cell cycle dynamics and genetic challenges. The genetics of cancer has been widely explored and analysed. Understanding cancer as primary and secondary cancer, benign or malignant is important in its diagnosis and treatment. Blood and tissue cancers are classified as carcinoma, sarcoma, lymphoma, blastoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma etc. The theories and mechanisms of carcinogenesis, roles of oncogenes, proto-oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes and DNA repair genes are the base of the pyramid to understand the science of neoplasia. Studying the hallmarks of cancer, morphology and properties of tumour, degree of metastasis and tumour markers immensely ...
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