The Silent Battle: Understanding Cancer, Its Types, and it’s Impact on Families and Patients

Cancer, a word itself causes terror into the hearts of the patients and their loved ones, it is a very complex disease which is caused when there is an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body that continuously spreads. There are various types of cancers affecting millions of people all over the world. In 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) gives us the record of about 10 million cancer patients who do not survive this disease as per year, which makes it the second leading cause of death globally. However, as hard it is for the patients fighting for their lives, it is as hard for their families bearing this deep burden and emotions as well as financial, and social challenges that cancer brings.
This feature story helps explain the nature of cancer, its different types, and the impact it has on both patients and their families.

Understanding Cancer

Cancer is a disease of the cells. Cells grow in a healthy body, then they multiply and eventually die in a controlled manner. Cancer disturbs the entire system and disrupts this process of cell growing, causing cells to grow uncontrollably, turns them into harmful tumors, and stage after stage starts spreading to other parts of the body (a process which is also called as metastasis). Some types of cancers make solid tumors and some like leukemia, only affect the blood and tissues that forms blood. Cancer is not age limited disease it can occur at any age, but the risk of this disease increases with age due to the extreme damage to cellular DNA over time.
Now if we talk about the types of cancers, the research shows that there are about 100+ types of cancer and each type of cancer has its own unique ability and properties but the only thing commong in them is that they share this trait of generating abnormal cells in the body.

Types of Cancer
1. Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women, but men can develop it too. It occurs when cells in the breast begin to grow abnormally. Early detection through regular scanning has make a difference in the outcomes for many patients, but research shows rhat the breast cancer still remains one of the main causes of cancer related deaths in women all over the world.

2. Lung Cancer

Lung cancer, has a strong connection with smoking, is also a main cause of cancer related death widely. But this cancer is also not limited to just smokers it can most definitely also affect nonsmokers because of their contact with different environmental factors like radon gases etc. It can also affect people with passive smoking. Lung cancer is a silent killer because the symptoms aren’t obvious until it’s too late. This type of cancer can be divided into two major types: non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer, and different treatment are required in both types.

3. Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is a cancer in the male prostate gland, which grows slowly. Most of the men that are diagnosed with prostate cancer can live for years without even realizing because of no obvious symptoms without needing any treatment. But in some cases, it can be more painful and spread to other parts of the body needing the patients to go through more intensive therapy.

4. Leukemia

Leukemia is a cancer of the tissue abnormally forming in the blood, including the bone marrow and lymphatic system. It affects children and older adults and is narrow down into four main types: acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Leukemia cells are present in the blood unlike the other cells which makes it hard to detect it on the early stage.

5. Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal cancer affects the colon or rectum and is one of the most preventable forms of cancer with regular screening. The development of the small hemorrhoid or small growths in the lining of the colon, can lead to cancer if they are not treated. With early detection, often through colonoscopy, theres a high chances of survival.

6. Skin Cancer

Skin cancer is the most common cancer globally and are classified into three types: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. Melanoma is a less commom most dangerous type because it can spread to other parts of the body if not detected early. Sun exposure, particularly UV radiation, is the main cause of skin cancer.

7. Lymphoma

Lymphoma forms in the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system of the body. There are two main types of lymphoma: Hodgkin’s lymphoma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. This cancer affects lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, and is it has an ability to multiply and spread to various parts of the body.
These were just a few examples of the most common cancers, but there are many other types, such as ovarian, pancreatic, bladder, and thyroid cancer, each with its own unique characteristics and complexities.

The Emotional and Psychological Impact on Patients

Diagnosing with cancer is often one of the most traumatic experiences a person can experience in his/her life. The feeling of uncertainty of whether you are going to survive or not and what does the future holds scares a person leading depression and traumatic mental state. Many patients experience mixed emotions, from fear and anxiety to anger and aggression.
Even the treatment itself causes so many problems like nausea, fatigue, hair loss, and other side effects that worsen the emotional condition. When u talk to the cancer survivors, they often talk about the “new normal” they have to adjust to, because life after cancer is not the same as before. Cancer has a lot of impacts on human’s psychology as well, it leads to the feelings of isolation, depression, anxiousness and in some cases, post-traumatic stress disorder.
However, it’s essential to take care of these patients and support them both physically and mentally, including counseling and regular therapy. This helps patients manage the emotional burden of this horrifying disease. Many cancer patients find peace in support groups, where they can share their experiences with others who understand the whole tenure of the disease.

The Family’s Burden

Cancer is not only hard for just the patients but also for their families. This news crushes their heart into pieces leaving them in tears and uncertainty of what their loved one will go through playing the role of their caregivers while balancing their own lives with the needs of the patient. This can cause emotional exhaustion, financial strain, and feelings of helplessness. Watching a loved one suffer is one of the hardest experiences a person can face.
Caregivers often experience a thing which is known a burnout, this is a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion. The responsibility of medical followups, providing emotional and verbal support, and managing daily life responsibilities can become very overwhelming. For many, the fiscal impact is equally straining. Since cancer treatment is expensive, and the costs of care and medications place a heavy burden on families.
Children of cancer patients struggles to deal with their parent’s illness. They may feel confused, scared, or even guilty. Parents with cancer often stresses a lot about the effect of their illness on their children.

Conclusion

Cancer is a complex disease that affects not just those diagnosed but also their families, friends, everyone related to them. It is very important to understand the different types of cancer and their impact to provide empathy and support for those battling the disease. With the scientific research of cancer, it is equally important to recognize the emotional, psychological, and financial challenges that comes with the it. Through awareness, early detection, and effort to support them, we can continue this battle against cancer while taking away some of the burden on patients and their families.

I was going to write on some other topic but after seeing the headline of the newspaper, my mood changed and I changed my mind because our innate democracy is more interesting, bold and immoral than any topic in the world.

I am very happy to know that even in this worst inflation, a zealous and conscious but hungry, unemployed vote is available for only two thousand rupees, although technically, two thousand rupees may not even be one thousand, but to be honest, public language. I have been ‘take basket’ and this is what should have happened with this ‘vote’ and this is what will continue to happen.

Contradictions and falsehood are our food, otherwise how is it possible that Mian Sahib, the inventor of vote buying and selling, would give up his efforts to honor the vote, that they are the product of disrespecting the vote itself and this was the trick that made him lose the councilor election. He was made the Prime Minister of this country three times. All the rest are riddles and stories.

The fact is that this is the real price and timings of “Vote Sharif”. For two thousand rupees, it is difficult to get a handful of Chalghoza, Dhang ke Moza ‘Eranmore’, two boxes of tobacco, a coat of Linde and a few Qeeme democratic naans, but ‘Rai’ can be bought easily. Once, this poem was written in honor of this ridiculous vote

Invested, opinions can be stolen

Water can also be set on fire

In the last 30 years, he must have repeated his favorite phrase at least 30 times that “He who does not have the ground under his feet and a roof over his head cannot have his own opinion.” Free opinion belongs to “free” people, not slaves, and don’t forget that there are many types of slaves and the “common man” in societies like ours is chained to layers of slavery until the ‘Caste community’ is also the worst form of slavery that is born from the womb of the worst ignorance, otherwise how is it possible that I vote for a Paji and Khabisul Dahar just because he belongs to me? From ‘community’ but that’s all there is to it.

In constituency NA 133 of Lahore, the PML-N and the People’s Party accused each other of buying votes. Buying votes is honoring the vote? I don’t know if this bare trade of democracy is honor or dishonor, but I can swear that … the truth is that this entire democracy, including the vote, was, is and will always be for sale.

This is the reason why I strongly hate this “Bulavi”, in English “Bulavi” is called a call girl, but the more important question is that when the “responsible” results from the Election Commission’s notice. will be arrested, will only those who buy votes of conscience be arrested, or will the sellers be rounded up because the fact is that both the buyer and the seller are criminals, in such a case, selling votes They said that…

“My vote is my will”

So what would be the answer?

Especially if the vote-seller was a widowed mother of two or three small children and she folded her hands and said to the mothers of democracy, “Holy! The children were hungry for two days and I sold my vote thinking that vote selling is better than prostitution and even so vote for whoever, the result is the same, so what does it matter?’ ‘

City dwellers do not and cannot know that as they move from urban centers to remote, backward areas, the “disrespect” of the vote will become more common. In the “Bay” Britain of democracy, this craze came in stages and when it came, we are still far behind those times, but not because our ballot boxes are filled with lies but our skulls remain empty. . What an interesting and strange kind of people we are, we have our financial system 100% western political system 100% copied and called “Islamic Republic”.

When someone mentions “interest-free system,” it sounds false and fraudulent, the whole economy is indebted to loans, interest or mark-up on loans, then this drama is like putting a bouquet in the commode, but just like we have anything. Not original, similarly thinking is not original. Most people die only their bodies, some people’s souls also die, vomiting of words or dysentery,

Political system ….Western democracy

The financial system…..busy dancing around the western dollar

The most popular sport is the western cricket

Honorable Language ….English

Favorite Food….Pizza, Burger, Pasta, Chips, Noodles etc.

For vacations….Europe, USA, Canada, Australia

Is all this not enough for the “vote” or two or four thousand things and miss? Yet usury is haram and everything else is halal.

My vote…my will

Your note … your will

Eyes wide open. . . . There is really no shortage of “talent” here. Thus, a living volcano does not spew lava like this society spews talent. Every time a new “talent” is introduced or comes into the limelight, I think that the “end” is over, the extremes have come to an end and now this “talent” can do more. Maybe, but every time I get horribly embarrassed because the abundance of talent shows up with something new that even amazes me.

The new episode of “Talent” is also fantastic. Hardly any community in the world can answer this task. We all deserve to be congratulated for this achievement that the installations at the metrobus stations running from Gajumta to Shahdara area of ​​Lahore have also started being stolen.

We came forward.

According to the website of the Punjab Mass Transit Authority, 64 buses ply at 27 stations on a 27-km track and incidents of theft are constantly coming to light at various bus stations. Everything from electrical cords to bulbs and bulbs to fans and switches are being stolen. It was not visible and these talents continued to develop twice as much day and night. It is a separate matter that due to this talent most of the facilities are not working and the state of metrobus service is becoming worse than democracy. The other good news is that whatever company was awarded the contract to restore the electrical infrastructure has not yet delivered anything.

Two contracts became very famous in Pakistan. For one thing, the contract given in Mr. Zia Mohiuddin’s program on PTV became very famous. Before that, opium contracts used to be used, but the government contracts have defeated everyone. And this work itself is a proof that there is no shortage of “talent” in this society. On the other hand, due to the abundance of talent, at Bhati Chowk, Shahdara, Data Darbar, MAO College metro stations, not only the electric escalators are closed, but the ticketing booths are also broken in many places and the scanners near the security guards are often broken.

This is the case of the “talent” of Lahore, while the talent of Karachi is senior and superior to the people of Lahore, because the people of Karachi had built markets on the railway track years ago, and you and our capital Islamabad too, Masha Allah. The whole of Pakistan has become There was a time when people used to say that “Pakistan begins as soon as you leave Islamabad”. The reason for this was that in those days Islamabad was very beautiful, calm and orderly. Then as the “prosperity” and “population” increased there, the “talent” also increased, as a result of which filth, filth, encroachment, illegal occupation, lawlessness, pollution, chaos and sit-ins etc. also began to increase. And today the eyes are far away. . . . Islamabad has also joined Pakistan and if there is any difficulty left, it will be completed in the near future and the interpretation of Field Marshal Ayub Khan’s dream will also be reversed like the interpretation of other dreams.

As the economic situation deteriorates and the population increases, the “talent” will also be hit and the time is not far when talent will be seen beating talent everywhere. Sometimes I wonder why we are so “talented”? This is the perfection of our “DNA”? Is it the amulet of a poor poor man, the blessing of a goon or the circumstances and ground realities were so clever that we gradually became so “talented” that even today’s civilized world looks at us with wonder and regret.

Readers are requested to help me in finding the answer to this question and before doing so, keep in mind this small fact that with the birth of Pakistan, “Fake Claims” and “Fake Castes” were introduced wholesale. ‘ were also born, which no one took notice of, and then it was so easy that the population of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was injected with the poison of different types of ‘permits’, which changed the preferences of the people. Rivers of Talent” said that if the glaciers are poisonous, the water of the rivers also becomes poisonous, if the water is poisonous, it becomes a message of death instead of life for the “aquatic life”.