Part one of term paper
In modern society cancer is the disease most feared by the majority of people throughout the world, supplanting the "white death," or tuberculosis, of the last century; the "black death," or bubonic plague, of the Middle Ages; and the leprosy of biblical times. Cancer has been known and described throughout history, although its greater pr ...

Part two of term paper
... The most common fatal form was stomach cancer (prevalent in Asia), but lung cancer has risen rapidly, because of the spread of cigarette smoking in developing countries, to become the leading fatal cancer in the world today. Also on the increase is the third- greatest killer, breast cancer, particularly in China and Japan. The fourth on the list is colon or rectum cancer, a disease that mainly strikes the elderly. In the United States in the mid-1980s, more than one-fifth of all deaths were cause ...