Short Communication
OZURUMBA-DWIGHT L.N.; SCHUMACK
Abstract
In a comparative appraisal of the courses and end points (terminal) taken by both ailments, we noticed the existence of intersects and divergences in malaria and cancer infections. Examining areas of intersections connoting similar trends: Malaria is a disease resulting from infection by a Protozoan Plasmodium parasites (various species exist), and it has been found that one of the causes of cancer is through infection by a virus (Human Papilloma Virus HPV) leading to cancerous conditions of various types, a prominent one of which is cervical cancer. Invariably, both malaria and cervical cancer could be treated. Malaria is a progressive disease, following initial infection and the disease could be very invasive if untreated or ineffectively treated. It is capable of progressing from a mild condition referred to as uncomplicated or mild malaria, into the severe form as the parasite multiplies, migrates and invade other tissues. As the parasite gain access to the tissues of the brain, they cause damages, leading to one of the deadly forms particularly in children, called cerebral malaria, which has the potentials of being severe. The parasite in other organs of the body such as the liver and spleen causes various health affecting conditions such as spleenomegaly. Invariably, commencing from its route of entry, principally through infectious bites â?? it is shed into the blood stream, move along with the blood, first into the liver where several cells of the parasite are replicated (likened to a place where there is a boost in the number of parasites) in preparation for its onwards dissemination or spread of its disease state, with capacity to afflict and cause pathologies to several other tissues, organs and various regions in the human or mammalian body.