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October is also known as 'pink month', as it is always a time to remember the fight against cancer. Cancer is one of the diseases with the highest mortality rate in the world, with the highest number of cases being lung and breast cancer.
The Institute of Public Health says that the number of men affected by cancer is 4 times higher than that of women. This disease affects many organs in the body such as the breast, lungs, head, skin, colon, kidneys, but very rarely the heart.
Why is the heart not so easily affected by cancer? Experts explain that although the heart can be at risk from cancer, tumor cells are usually benign, meaning they are not deadly.
Every cell in the body has the potential to become malignant or cancerous. This disease stems precisely from the mutation of the cell's DNA. Before a cancerous cell becomes deadly, it undergoes a series of mutations.
Most of them occur when a cell divides in two and re-forms its DNA. The only way for a cell to mutate is to divide and multiply.
Heart cells, on the other hand, do not divide and form new cells, except in cases of injury. Since heart cells do not divide, the chances of mutation are extremely small.
How do breast, colon and skin tumors form?
Most cells are replaced with new ones all the time. Breast tissue, for example, is constantly affected by hormones, the lining of the colon is constantly replaced, and the same goes for skin.
Since cells mutate all the time, this is why these diseases are more prevalent. The heart, on the other hand, is not exposed to external or internal carcinogens, but only to cells in the blood that do not mutate.
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