Its all about the Cure and helping raise money for Cancer research...So can you cut it? hundreds of people lose their hair every day to the harsh treaments of Chemo,will you stand and show their not alone in this fight and take that big snip? Cancer dont care who it strikes..Women...Children...Men. I bet you know someone who has had cancer so what they went though or is going through so CAN YOU CUT IT?...join the FIGHT!Cancer In young adults... Young adults with cancer between their teens and early 40's face unique concerns such as fertility, body image, cognitive function, long-term effects, education, insurance and employment. Young adults with cancer deal with distinctly different issues based on developmental life cycles of their age group, still aspiring to actualize their goals and dreams which many older cancer patients have already achieved. Young adult cancers may also have different biological factors that are now being studied so better treatments can be developed. Cancer centers are establishing young adult cancer programs and young adult oncology is becoming a specialized area of clinical focus. Peer support for young adults facing cancer and serious illness is often weak and can lead to feelings of isolation. While healthy friends are off living their lives, a cancer diagnosis challenges the natural progression of maturity. College students may find themselves unable to keep up academically, some may lose their sense of independence by having to move home with their parents, and dating and relationships present new challenges. There are additional problems for young adults that are married with small children of their own. Unfortunately, many young adults have no health insurance and are often delayed in their diagnosis, or sometimes not taken seriously as potential cancer patients. cancer, in medicine, common term for neoplasms, or tumors, that are malignant. Like benign tumors, malignant tumors do not respond to body mechanisms that limit cell growth. Unlike benign tumors, malignant tumors consist of undifferentiated, or unspecialized, cells that show an atypical cell structure and do not function like the normal cells from the organ from which they derive. Cancer cells, unlike normal cells, lack contact inhibition; cancer cells growing in laboratory tissue culture do not stop growing when they touch each other on a glass or other solid surface but grow in masses several layers deep. Loss of contact inhibition accounts for two other characteristics of cancer cells: invasiveness of surrounding tissues, and metastasis, or spreading via the lymph system or blood to other tissues and organs. Whereas normal cells have a limited lifespan controlled by the telomere gene, which signals the end of the cell line, cancer cells contain telomerase, an enzyme that alters the telomere gene and allows the cell to continue to divide. Cancer tissue, growing without limits, competes with normal tissue for nutrients, eventually killing normal cells by nutritional deprivation. Cancerous tissue can also cause secondary effects, in which the expanding malignant growth puts pressure on surrounding tissue or organs or the cancer cells metastasize and invade other organs.