Cancer Research

The California Oncology Research Institute (CORI) is committed to curing cancer through innovative cancer research, early detection, education, and novel treatments. They truly care about establishing lasting relationships and treating patients as individuals. The mission of Corigroup is your mission; to be treated with respect and dignity while simultaneously providing the highest level of patient care possible and conducting the most comprehensive cancer research. CORI believes our patients are more than just a form of cancer.

They regard each and every one of their patients as if they were members of their own families. Cancer is an unpredictable disease. Even with all the extensive cancer research that is being conducted all over the world, a cure still have not been discovered. It is the goal of Corigroup to stay on the forefront of cancer research information and to help to contribute to society in a big way by finding the cure to cancer. The term 'cancer' actually refers to over one hundred different kinds of cancer. Cancer can affect anyone, at anytime and at any place in the body. This is so easily accomplished because the organs in our body are made up of cells. Cells divide and multiply as the body needs them. When these cells continue multiplying when the body doesn't need them, the result is a mass or growth, also called a tumor. cancer research has shown that these growths are considered either benign or malignant. Benign is considered non-cancerous and malignant is cancerous. Benign tumors rarely are life threatening and do not spread to other parts of the body and can often be removed. So, at this point you may be wondering how does cancer spread to other parts of the body? The cells within malignant tumors, the cancerous ones, have the ability to invade other neighboring tissues and organs, which causes the spreading the disease. It is also possible for cancerous cells to break free from the tumor and enter the blood stream, and spreading the disease to other organs. This process of spreading is called metastasis.

When the cancer has metastasized and has affected other areas of the body, cancer research has shown us that the disease is still referred to the organ of origination. For example, if cervical cancer spreads up to the lings, it is still called cervical cancer not lung cancer because that is where the cancer started. Although most cancers do develop in this way, cancer research tells us that other diseases like leukemia do not. They affect the blood and the organs that form blood, and then invade the other nearby tissues. What we have learned from cancer research is that all cancers are different and each requires a different and unique type of treatment. What may be effective for prostate cancer is probably not going to work for bladder cancer. Diagnosing cancer will vary as well, depending on the organ that has become affected.. Some facts about cancer that we simply cannot afford to ignore are that one in three people will develop cancer, one in four people will die of cancer, in the year 2005, approximately 1.4 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed, more than 1500 Americans died each day of cancer that year, and over 1,000,000 cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed this year! cancer research has also taught us that cancer is the leading cause of death among Americans under the age of eighty-five.