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The human body comprises various types of cells which are grouped together to make up the organs and tissues. There are more than 200 different types of body cells. Cancer is a disease caused by normal cells changing, with the result that they grow in an uncontrolled fashion and thereby cause a tumor to be formed which, in turn, will make problems by creeping into normal cells nearby or by causing pressure on other body structures. Cancer research is concerned with making out the roots of cancer and finding out how to diagnose, treat, cure and prevent this mortal illness.

In the world today, there are many NGO’s and government sponsored institutions engaged in comprehensive cancer research work. These organizations expend very large amounts of money yearly on such studies. Normally such research work is spread from epidemiology, molecular bioscience to the carrying out of clinical trials of different treatment applications so as to evaluate and compare the efficacy of such applications. However, since 1990’s, the focus of these research has been centered on immunotherapy and gene therapy.

Such NGO’s as Cancer Research UK and American Institute for Cancer research (AIR) have been granting funds to thousands of doctors, scientists and other research fellows in cancer research. Their studies encompasses nearly every field of cancer related topics via widespread programs of top-notch studies in universities, hospices and other institutions world-wide.

More and more promising researchers, students, and scientists are joining in cancer research work in order to fight this deadly disease that afflicts millions of patients globally.. The would-be scholars of cancer research may keep in mind that they have access to really informative and instructive research findings and resources from the Internet. At the same time, if they are looking for some research grant or fellowship to carry out cancer research work to save the lives of millions of cancer patients in the world, they have a ready reference guide in the Internet where a simple search will give them a plethora of websites of such organizations that are all too ready to grant such assistance.

Everybody concerned about cancer, be it patients or academics, are keen on finding the latest news on the types of new therapy and information on treatments. Internet does have everything. However, it is always useful to corroborate this evidence of the latest from many sources before accepting a single research paper. Mind you, cancer research is an ongoing process.