Article about cancer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/sunday-review/why-everyone-seems-to-have-cancer.html?src=me&_r=0

Before reading the article,its title immediately caught my attention.Cancer is a very common disease and as the article says, it is also a very tricky one.

This article explains why so many people are diagnosed with cancer every day.Unlike other diseases, cancer is inevitable, You can never get totally rid of it.It may arise from an infection, from another disease or from tobacco which is why it is not easy to prevent it.Cancer is caused by a problem during the division of our body cells.These cells that do not develop properly become stronger and more powerful than the others which is why the tumor starts becoming bigger and bigger in a very short period of time.This is basically a mutation of our cells which is essential for the evolution of the species.These errors are going to keep happening, which means that cancer is never going to be completely eradicated.

This article compares cancer with other of the most common diseases that can lead to death. In the 1950´s cancer and heart disease were the most dangerous ones, being heart disease the main cause of death.
Now in the 21th century cancer is on top of the list. There has been a lot of research on heart disease and nowadays there are many ways of preventing and treating these kind of problems. Many scientists have been looking for a cure for cancer and they make progress day by day but there are still manythings they

don´t know about this disease.The amount of children killed by cancer has been reduced through the past few decades but there is still a large number of old people that die because of this illness.

The conclusion I made after reading this article is that it does not matter how many medicines and treatments are found to cure cancer, this disease is always going to be a threat to human beings.