Cancer

Introduction

All living beings are composed of organs, tissues and cells and cells are composed of various components such as cell membrane, nucleus, ribosome, cytoplasm etc. During development and maintenance of body these cells disintegrate, new cells are generated, by mitosis and meiosis processes.

While new cells are formed number, size etc., are maintained to keep normalcy of tissue and organs. However sometimes due to mutations some cells are generated abnormally thus forming abnormal growth of cells, tissues which are absolutely non-essential and complicate physiological functions. This abnormal growth of new cells is known as neoplasm. When these cells are limited and non-proliferated it is called Benign and if cells are proliferated without sustaining growth and spreads irregularly in the body it is called Malignance/ Cancer.

Since these caner growths are irregular, spreads similar to a Snake pit, Cancer is called Valmika/Puttru (Snake pit)noi in Ayurveda/SIddha medicine.