What is the difference between tuberculosis and Cancer?

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease, caused essentially by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It often affects the lungs, but can affect any part of the body. read more

Tuberculosis is a chronic infective disease mainly caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Both conditions affect the lungs, but they have different pathology. The key difference between lung cancer and tuberculosis is that the lung cancer is the malignancy of the lungs, but tuberculosis is a chronic infection. read more

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease, caused essentially by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It often affects the lungs, but can affect any part of the body. It is a curable and preventable disease but with high mortality if left untreated, when the patient is immunodeficienct or when it affects the central nervous system or the bowels. read more