Risk Factors
Types of cancer that smoking can cause
What are Lung, Esophagus, Pancreas, Bladder, and Larynx?
Most common cause of liver cancer in the United States
What is Alcoholism?
Most common symptom of colon cancer
What is rectal bleeding?
Used to shrink tumors before radiation or surgery
What is chemotherapy?
Scarring of the liver tissue
What is Cirrhosis?
These are lifestyle related risk factors for colorectal cancer
What are diet, tobacco use, excessive alcohol use, obesity, and physical inactivity?
A mutated gene from parents is an example of this risk factor
What is heredity?
First and only sign can be a dull ache in the lower abdomen
What is testicular cancer?
Most common surgical procedure in lung cancer treatment
What is a Lobectomy?
Tumor marker for prostate cancer
What is Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)?
Two reproductive risk factors for breast cancer
What is nulliparity and late pregnancy?
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including either ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease can increase your risk of this type of cancer
What is colorectal?
Most common signs and symptoms in lung cancer
What are Hemoptysis, chronic cough, shortness of breath?
A procedure which involves the surgical removal of the testes
What is an inguinal orchiectomy?
Uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body
What is cancer?
Persons of this ethnicity/race should have a colonoscopy before the age of 50.
What is Native American/ Alaska Native and African American?
These receptors promote breast cancer development
What are Estrogen (ER), Progesterone, or Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2)?
Most likely lymph node to be palpable with breast cancer
What are the axillary lymph nodes?
The removal of entire breast, pectoralis major and minor muscles and neck lymph nodes
What is a radical mastectomy?
Stage when breast tumor size is up to 5 cm with axillary and neck lymph node involvement
What is Stage II?
Stage I – tumor size up to 2 cm. Stage II – tumor size up to 5 cm with axillary and neck lymph node involvement. Stage III – tumor size is more than 5 cm with axillary and neck lymph node involvement. Stage IV – metastasis to distant organs (liver, lungs, bone and brain).
Race that has an increased risk of prostate cancer
What is African American?
Currently, the most significant unpreventable risk factor for cancer
What is age?
boo!!!
Jaundice, an sign of pancreatic cancer, is caused by this
What is a blocked bile duct?
Removed during the Whipple procuedure
What is the head of the pancreas, duodenum, gallbladder, end of bile duct and (sometimes) portion of stomach?
TNM stands for this in cancer staging
What is tumor size, nodal involvement, and metastasis?