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Why E.canD?

  Two fifths of mankind is suffering from cancer during full life-time, and one fourths dies because of this disease. The rate of people who get cancer increases with age. However, human cannot notice easily about getting cancer or not due to incubation period. Doing so is easier when cancer’s diagnosed at an early stage as treatment is often simpler and more likely to be effective. So finding cancer early is very important. Half of people are killed by cancer within five years after a diagnosis from doctor, and cancer shortens 15~20 years of lifespan of patients. Another interesting research said that 40% of cancer patients experience severe mental distress; most of them are suffered by pusillanimity. It can make one's life tragedy, not only oneself, but also one's family. Another terrible cause why cancer is severe to us is medical expenses. If someone got a cancer, we will receive huge doctor's fee like hundreds of thousands dollar. It makes terribly huge burden for ordinary family. Unfortunately, someone is sometimes suffering to cancer without any treatment. In the case for women, breast cancer is really severe cancer and the most frequent cancer that can find. The following graph shows that a quarter of women who got a cancer have a breast cancer.

  There are several methods for cancer diagnosis. One of the widely used methods is imaging test. It is divided into in vivo and in vitro method. In vivo imaging tests are X-ray, MRI, CT, PET, SPCT scan, and Ultrasound, in vitro method is biopsy. A biopsy is a procedure to remove a piece of tissue or a sample of cells from body for laboratory analysis. In addition, the diagnosis methods using bio marker such as RNA and DNA are developed. Bio marker plays a key role in risk assessment, assessing treatment response, and detecting recurrence and the investigation of multiple bio markers may also prove useful in accurate prediction and prognosis of cancers.

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