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Name two types cancers.
Breast cancer, kidney cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer.
Name 2 ways to keep your self healthy so you are not prone to cancer.
Name one symptom of Cancer?
Is cancer genetic?
YES, Cancer is, in fact, a genetic disease. This is because cancer is caused by mutations or changes to genes that control the way our cells function, causing them to behave irregularly.
What is blood cancer?
Blood cancer is caused by changes in the DNA within your blood cells. Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma are some of the most common types of blood cancer.
What causes cancer?
Cancer is a cancer that is caused by mutations of the DNA. The DNA inside a cell is made up of a large number of individual genes, each of which contains a set of instructions telling the cell what functions to perform, as well as how to grow and divide.
In addition to smoking cigarettes, this type of smoke can also cause lung cancer.
Passive smoking
Cancer cells can spread through the body using the lymph vessels and ________?
Bloodstream
What is Immunotherapy?
They are vaccines and bacteria that are used to stimulate the body's response to cancer cells
Most lung cancer starts in the lining of which tissue.
Bronchi
How can cancer affect your wellbeing?
It can impact the common feelings during this life-changing experience include anxiety, distress, and depression.
Name 2 of the most common types of cancer treatments.
Surgery, Radiation and Chemotherapy
How can cancer cells differ from normal cells?
Cancer cells grow in the absence of signals telling them to grow. Normal cells only grow when they receive such signals. Cancer cells ignore signals that normally tell cells to stop dividing or to die whereas normal cells don't.
This term is used to describe a disease that is a long-lasting condition that can be controlled but not cured like diabetes and now cancer.
Chronic Disease
Smoking is a risk factor for this type of cancer that is only found in women.
Cervical Cancer
How can cancer occur?
When cells grow old or become damaged, they die, and new cells take their place. Sometimes this orderly process breaks down, and abnormal or damaged cells grow and multiply when they shouldn't. These cells may form tumors.
In addition to preventing cancer, this type of screening exam can detect colorectal (Cancer that occurs in colon) cancer early.
Colonoscopy
What are the 5 stages of cancer?
Stage I means the cancer is small and only in one area. This is also called early-stage cancer.
Stage II and III mean the cancer is larger and has grown into nearby tissues or lymph nodes.
Stage IV means the cancer has spread to other parts of your body.
This type of screening exam has been proven to detect lung cancer early.
Low Dose Computed Tomography
In addition to preventing cancer, this type of test can find cervical cancer early. What is it called?
Pap test