article_snippet.sent: That term needs to be abandoned and early referral for investigation and diagnosis-based treatment should instead become the norm.'
article_snippet.sent: This means that treatable conditions such as disc prolapses, osteoporotic fractures, deformity, infection and tumours can be missed.'
article_snippet.sent: By the time a baby is born, these cells should have disappeared - if these cells remain, and nobody knows why this happens, these cells can develop into tumours.
article_snippet.sent: Sometimes these are secondary to cancer elsewhere in the body, particularly breast, brain or pancreatic cancer.
article_snippet.sent: Typically, Cancer cells occur in adults between ages 40 and 70, and often Cancer cells are detected late - patients live on average just six years after diagnosis.
article_snippet.sent: In up to 40 per cent of patients patients spread to the lungs, liver, bones, and skin.