Carcinomas occur when the DNA of a cell is damaged or altered and the cell begins to grow uncontrollably and become malignant. It is from the Greek ÎºÎ±ÏÎºÎ¯Î½ÏÎ¼Î± 'karkinoma' meaning sore, ulcer, or cancer, itself derived from karkinos 'crab'.
Service Driven By Integrity and Professionalism. Carter County covers an area of about 500 square miles and is located in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri. Approximately half of the six thousand county residents live in the small municipalities of Van Buren, Ellsinore, Grandin, Hunter and Fremont. The remaining residents are dispersed throughout the mostly remote rural areas of the county.
Department personnel provide staff assistance to the following: Cartersville, the county seat for Bartow County, is 45 miles northwest of Atlanta on Interstate 75 (exits 288, 290, 293). The City, named for early 1800s Georgia entrepreneur Colonel Farish Carter, is 30 square miles in size. The 2013 Census population estimates were 20,001 for Cartersville and 101,273 for all of Bartow County.