Public Health Concern

Public health is one of the worst thing there is in our society. I would say cancer is the second leading death of human beings in the United States. Cancer is constantly attacking more and more humans leading them to death. There exist so many cancers now that has become a real massive public health concern for everyone. Cancer can exist in about any part of the body meaning that you cannot avoid cancer in one area and have it in the other. Cancer is caused by changes (mutations) to the DNA within cells. The DNA inside a cell contains a set of instructions telling the cell how to grow and divide. Errors in the instructions may allow a cell to become cancerous.  Everyday more and more people are being victims of cancer and not half of them are strong enough to fight cancer. There needs to be a cure to cancer immediately in order to save most human beings from cancer which may or may not lead to death, based on if they have a good immune system or not. Studies have shown that elderly people and children are the majority out of all age groups that are mostly being affected by cancer. Elderly people are being affected because they don’t have a very great strong immune system as they did back twenty years ago. Children are also another main age group because they haven’t fully developed and their immune system hasn’t developed by completely and when their cells abnormally divide that causes cancer in their bodies. Cancer is definitely a major public health concern that must be taken into consideration immediately.