Treatment/Prevention
The 3 types of Treatment
What is Radiation,Chemotherapy, and Surgery.
What is a common cause of Lung Cancer?
Smoking Cigs
Define Benign
Not Cancerous, does not invade other tissue or spread to other parts of the body
What is Apoptosis
Cell suicide
What are the bodies 3 backup systems
The DNA repair system, Apoptosis, Limit cell division
Explain the difference between lifetime and relative risk
Relative risk compares developing cancer between people in one group while lifetime risk show the probability that a person will develop cancer over their lifetime.
What type of cancer effects the blood?
Lymphoma
Chemical carcinogens affect what directly?
Cellular genes
A gene that encourages cell division
Proto-Onco genes
True or False: virises are a risk factor
True
What types of cancer are BRCA 1&2 associated with
Breast and ovarian cancer
Cancer cells do what uncontrollably?
Divide and multiply
True or False: Using radiation kills only cancer cells
False
True or False: Fair skin causes cervical cancer
False
Define Metastatic
Cancer growth that is anatomically separated from the site at which the original cancer developed
Cancer cells are what cells?
Indigenous
Who is the US at war with?
Cancer
Define risk factors:
The choices that we make
What type of Cancer was found more in women after WWII?
Lung Cancer
Mutations