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Leuk- refers to white blood cells, and -emia refers to the blood, so in leukemia , there’s uncontrolled proliferation of partially developed white blood cells, also called blast cells, which build up in the blood over a short period of time. Although leukemia means cancer white blood cells, it can also be used to refer to cancer of any of the blood cells, including red blood cells and platelets. 

 Prostate cancer, usually refers to prostate adenocarcinoma, where adeno- means gland and carcinoma refers to uncontrolled growth of cells - so prostate cancer is a tumor or growth that originates in the prostate gland.

Lung cancer, or lung carcinoma, is the uncontrolled division of epithelial cells which line the    respiratory tract. There are two main categories of lung cancer,small cell and non-small cell, which depend on the type of epithelial cell that’s dividing. Both types can be fatal, especially if the cancerous cells aggressively spread and establish secondary sites of cancer in other tissues. 

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a condition in which the accumulation of excess fat in the liver, not due to excessive alcohol consumption. It's a very common condition in clinical practice. It's affect about 20% of the world population.  We care about fatty liver disease because it is one of the problem which can cause liver failure, liver cancer, and the need for live transplantation. The presence of extra fat in the liver can cause chronic irritation of the liver cells and subsequently can cause further liver damage There are three common causes of fatty liver disease, being overweight,patient's with diabetes and also patient's with high cholesterol.  Keeping in mind some people with normal body weight can have fatty liver disease. The increasing epidemic of fatty liver disease has been recently attributed to overweight and the high prevalence of diabetes. Fatty liver disease used to be a very rare condition in children. However, recently with the increasing ...