Are there cancer cells in your body?

Have you started to wonder if there are cancer cells in your body? Almost every type of cancer is confirmed only after it’s diagnosed and run through a series of medical tests. The common symptoms of cancer are not known to everyone and therefore it’s hard to detect and prevent cancer in its early stages.

Now, some facts about cancer cells. Every person has cancer cells in their body. There is no effect of these cells unless they multiply to billions. The standard cancer tests can not detect them if they are not above a certain quantity in the body. After treatment of cancer, say lung cancer, if the doctor says that there are no more cancer cells in the body, it only means that their tests are not detecting the cancer cells because they are low in size. The cancer cells can occur anywhere between 5-10 times in a person’s lifetime.

We all have cancer cells in our body and there are several factors that causes cancer. Some of these factors include lifestyle, food, environment etc.