Nothing seems more rewarding than being able to feel like all your hard work has paid off. After months or years of fighting cancer, there is finally a moment of peace when the word "remission" is spoken. Unfortunately, this word does not mean that cancer has been cured permanently, and some people never get to hear that long-awaited word from every cancer patient. In general, cancer is a leading cause of death in both children and adults. Unlike many other diseases, cancer is an extremely versatile disease; it can be found in many different forms with an innumerable number of causes. This creates a difficulty in finding a permanent cure. The frequency of specific types of cancer depends greatly on the person's age and gender. According to Med Net, while leukemia is more common in the teenage years, the majority of adult male cancer patients suffer from prostate cancer, and among women, the most common cancer is breast cancer. Between the ages of one and fourteen, one of the three most common reasons for death is cancer (. Although the types of childhood cancer are endless, the most frequent is leukemia, which is a cancer of the blood cells. This occurs when the number of white blood cells is abnormally high and the number of red blood cells and platelets is abnormally low. In a normal blood sample, red blood cells significantly outnumber white blood cells, constituting approximately half of the blood components, and red blood cells increase significantly. decrease, causing the inability to transfer the necessary amount of oxygen throughout the body. In young patients there are two main types of leukemia: the... middle of the paper...; In adult males cancer develops more frequently diagnosed is prostate cancer, which is diagnosed in one in seven men. Prostate cancer is a cancer that contains familial tendencies, when an individual's past generations have been diagnosed, the probability of inheriting it increases greatly. Although it is the most common cancer found in adult males, prostate cancer does not cause the greatest number of cancer deaths in adult males. If treated early and correctly, the cancer is not commonly fatal, and less than 3% of American males with prostate cancer die from the disease itself (Prostate Cancer 5). htm http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001915.htm http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/003095-pdf.pdfhttp:// www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=25264