Abstract

Cancer is a disease which is caused by the uncontrolled growth of cells. The cancer stem cells suggest that the clones are obtained by the sub population of cells showing diverse cancer cells phenotypically. First possible cancer stem cells are seen in leukemia, brain tumors and breast cancer. The gastrointestinal cancer becoming the major causes of deaths in the world. A questionnaire was developed and it is distributed among the students of class to determine the ideas and awareness of this disease. Questionnaires contain 15 different types of question regarding the disease. 39 students taken from the Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Pakistan. All the students are post graduated and the results show that all of them have awareness from this disease.

Keywords: Cancer stem cells; Gastrointestinal cancer; Questionnaire; Biology; Prevalence; Transmission