Learn how to overcome cancer without drugs or surgery. The word Cancer means crab and/or creeping sore. Cancer tissue and cells cover a broad spectrum of malignant (bad) neoplasms (new cells). There are over one hundred types of bad new cells (malignant neoplasms) classified as cancer. Each is believed to have a different cause. The types of cancer are carcinomas; which affect glands, skin, organs, and mucous membrane skin; lymphomas, which affect lymph glands and fluid; sarcomas; which affect bones, muscles, connective tissue; and leukemia, which affects blood. Cancer is a disease that has unfortunately become a profit-making industry. As an industry, it must expand the medical signs and symptoms of cancers as well as the definition of cancer in order to survive. This expands the market share (amount of people to buy treatments). This industry also must expand its arsenal of treatments, such as drugs, research projects, chemotherapy, and surgeries which increase profit. Cancer develops when cells in a part of the body begin to grow out of control. Although there are many kinds of cancer, they all start because of out-of-control growth of abnormal cells. Different types of cancer can behave very differently. For example, lung cancer and breast cancer are very different diseases. They grow at different rates and respond to different treatments. That is why people with cancer need treatment that is aimed at their particular kind of cancer. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Half of all men and one-third of all women in the US will develop cancer during their lifetimes. Today, millions of people are living with cancer or have had cancer.