Diseases and illnesses have intrigued human beings since ancient times. Throughout history, men and women of medicine studied the complexity of diseases, their mechanism and effects on the human bodies, through naked eye examination, autopsies, under the microscopes and various laboratory investigations. As years passed, the study of pathology of diseases branched as its own discipline under the big tree of medicine, contributing to diagnostic medicine.

One of the most daunting disease affecting mankind is cancer. How does cancer start? What are the features of cancer? Are all tumours cancerous? What is a benign tumour? Can a benign tumour turn into cancer? These are some of the questions that would be addressed in this book, which offers glipmses of the cancer cases from the eyes of a pathologist.