Question: How does cancer grow and develop in your body?

James Brown answered on 1 Dec 2022:

Great question! Cancer is what we call normal cells that have stopped doing their original job (like making skin) and now grow without stopping. There are lots of different ways that cancer cells can grow, and cancer from each cell type is also different, and each person is different (age, sex, where you live, how healthy you are…). So each persons cancer is very different from another’s, even if they have the same type of cancer (eg breast cancer), thats why cancer is very hard to treat- we need to pick a specific treatment that works for each person.