Interesting Facts
Cancer comes from the latin word for what animal?
Crab
This disease is the second-leading cause of death world-wide
Cancer
This cancer is the third leading cause of death?
Colon
The development of this test significantly dropped the death rate of cervical cancer
This ancient civilization first described cancer
Egyptian
This is the most common type of cancer in the US
Skin cancer
This is the age you should start colon cancer screening in an average risk person
45
95% of cervical cancer is related to this
HPV
This is the number of people worldwide who die from cancer each year
10 million
This is the percentage of cancers that are hereditary
10%
60% of colon cancer deaths could have been prevented by this action
screening colon test
These two types of HPV are responsible for 50% of cervical cancer
HPV 16 & 18
The largest grouping of cancer in history came from this disaster
Chernobyl
This is the amount of cancers that are preventable through lifestyle changes
40%
This percentage of colon cancer are in patients with a family history of colon cancer
30%
This is the average age of diagnosis of cervical cancer
50
This animal is immune to cancer
Naked Mole Rat
This is the amount of cancer preventable through screenings
33%
This group has the highest percentage of any ethnic group in the world
Ashkenazi Jews
Women who do this double their chance of getting cervical cancer
smoking