A disease in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue.
What is Cancer?
100
Survival Rate: 14%
What is Stage 1A Pancreatic Cancer
100
This type of Cancer affects over 3 million people per year in the United States. Normally is found in women.
What is Breast Cancer?
100
A procedure to remove or repair a part of the body or to find whether disease is present.
What is Surgery?
200
More than 100 types of this Disease
What is Cancer?
200
Survival Rate: 7%
What is the survival rate for Stage 2A?
200
It is very Common in Children and teens, accounting for 1 in every 3 cases. Affects blood.
What is Leukemia
200
Treatment with drugs that kill cancer cells.
What is Chemotherapy?
300
Swelling of a part of the body, generally without inflammation, caused by an abnormal growth of tissue, whether benign or malignant.
What is A tumor?
300
Survival Rate: 3%
What is the Survival Rate for Stage 3?
300
It affects female organs that produces the Egg.
What is Ovarian Cancer?
300
A type of treatment that uses drugs or other substances to identify and attack specific types of cancer cells with less harm to normal cells.
What is Targeted Therapy?
400
This type of tumor is a mass of cells that lacks the ability to invade neighboring tissue or metastasize
What is a Benign Tumor
400
Survival Rate: 5%
What is Survival rate for Stage 2B
400
Cancer that affects the butterfly shaped gland in the neck
What is Thyroid Cancer
400
The use of high energy radiations from x-rays, gamma rays, neutrons, protons, and other sources to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors
What is Radiation Therapy?
500
Shorting of the time a chromosome is replicates
What is Telomeres
500
Survival rate-1%
What is the survival rate for Stage 4?
500
Cancer that affects the organ behind your stomach?
Also, Awareness month is November
What is Pancreatic Cancer?
500
A type of biological therapy that uses substances to stimulate or suppress the immune system to help the body fight cancer, infections, and other diseases.