Refers to a group of fibrous, heat-resistant minerals. Once a common ingredient in American construction materials. Microscopic fibers can become trapped in the body, causing disease over time.
What is ASBESTOS?
100
Something that increases a person's chances of developing a disease?
What is a Risk Factor?
100
For most types of cancer, this is the main way doctors can determine cancer. This procedure is the removal of a small amount of tissue for examination under a microscope.
What is a Biopsy?
100
The main character's in this book are Opal and her dog
What is Because of Winn Dixie?
100
The capital of this state is Boston
What is Massachusettes?
200
Harms nearly every organ of the body and causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths. It is also responsible for many other cancers and health problems.
What is Cigarette Smoking?
200
Abnormal cells that grow rapidly and out of control, and may invade other healthy body tissue.
What is Cancer?
200
This is an x-ray that checks for breast cancer in women. The images that it produces may show small tumors that cannot be felt. It may also show other irregularities in the breast.
What are Mammograms or Mammography?
200
In this series, a group of four crime solving children live in a part of a train
What is The Box Car Children?
200
The capital of Idaho
What is Orofino?
300
Research has shown that these 2 key correlated factors can increase a person’s cancer risk.
What is an unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity?
300
These kinds of tumors can grow very large and press on healthy organs and tissues. But they cannot grow into (invade) other tissues.
What are Benign Tumors?
300
High or low levels of certain substances in your body can be a sign of cancer. So, lab tests of these 2 body fluids can help doctors make a diagnosis.
What is blood and urine?
300
The narrator in this book frequently speaks saving the children from adulthood
What is The Catcher and the Rye?
300
In the fictional television show family guy, the Griffins live in this state
What is Rhode Island?
400
These agents can cause cancer or increase the risk that cancer will form by disrupting normal cell growth and possibly weakening the immune system.
What are Infections: (Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites)?
400
The medical term for cancer that spreads to a different part of the body from where it started.
What is Metastasis?
400
Imaging procedures create pictures of areas inside your body that help the doctor see whether a tumor is present. Name 1 most common image that is taken to detect cancer.
What are CatScan, MRI, and Ultrasound?
400
In this novel, Scout and her brother Jem live in the fictional town of Maycomb.
What is To Kill A Mocking Bird?
400
The state above Oregon is
What is Washington?
500
Exposure to UV radiation is the main factor that causes this type of cancer.
What is a Melanoma (Skin Cancer)?
500
A tumor that can invade neighboring tissue and organs through the circulatory system.
What is a Malignant Tumor?
500
Your doctor may feel areas of your body for lumps that may indicate a tumor. He or she may look for abnormalities, such as changes in skin color or enlargement of an organ, that may indicate the presence of cancer.
What is a Physical Exam?
500
One of Dr. Suess's classics, this book involves a cartoon feline who terrorises when the parents are out