What is Cancer?
True or False? There are more than 100 different types of cancer.
True.
The opposite of eating unhealthy foods.
What is eating healthy foods?
One risk factor of cancer.
What is Tobacco use, Alcohol consumption, Diet, Physical activity, UV radiation, Obesity, or infections.
Precision drugs that attack specific molecules causing cancer growth.
What is targeted therapy?
Most common way to get cancer.
What is an Unhealthy diet and obesity?
What is Cancer?
What is Disease, specifically caused by uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells.
Applying this lotion with an SPF rating is a highly recommended way to protect yourself from the sun, and cancer.
What is wearing sunscreen?
Protection from the sun is vital for staying away from cancers. Re-apply sunscreen every 2-4 hours, especially on hot sunny days.
This habit is the leading cause of lung cancer worldwide and is often done using cigarettes or vapes.
What is smoking (or tobacco use)?
Powerful drugs that kill rapidly dividing cells throughout the body.
What is chemotherapy?
Age most people get cancer.
What is 50 and older?
What is 1 kind of common cancer found in a human being?
What is Breast, Skin, Lung, Prostate Cancer.
These are two habits doctors always recommend: one keeps your scale steady, and the other keeps your body moving.
What is staying at a healthy weight and being physically active?
This risk factor includes traits or conditions passed down to you directly from your biological parents.
What is genetics (or genes)?
High-energy beams used to destroy cancer cell DNA in a specific area.
What is radiation therapy?
Cancer is a genetic disease caused by.
What are mutations in genes that control how cells grow and divide?
Leukemia is a cancer starting primarily in the marrow of bones and affecting which of the bodies main internal transport system?
What is the Circulatory system.
To protect yourself and the community from seasonal flu, doctors strongly advise you to do this.
What is Getting vaccinated.
Getting vaccinated can help with prevention of the flu and certain types of cancer, for example getting a vaccine for Hepatitis B can help prevent some types of cancer.
Eating too much processed meat and not getting enough physical activity falls under this health category, which impacts your overall cancer risk.
What is diet/exercise?
Surgically cutting out a tumor and a small margin of healthy tissue.
What is a simple excision?
Uncommon way cancer is caused.
What is by parasites?
Cancers like breast or lung cancers form solid masses that are tumors. What category of cancer would blood cancers fall into since they don’t form solid masses?
What is Liquid or Non-solid cancers.
We learned this last unit, what should you wear when having intercourse to prevent STIs and Pregnancy?
What is a condom?
Wearing a condom can prevent STIs which can lead to certain cancers.
This is the term for any substance, chemical, or type of radiation that is known to cause cancer.
What is carcinogen?
A treatment that boosts or trains your body's own immune system to recognize and fight cancer cells.
What is Immunotherapy?
Rarest way cancer is caused.
What is donor-transmitted cancer or organ transplantation?