Treatments
This type of systemic treatment uses drugs to destroy cancer cells throughout the body, often causing side effects like hair loss
Chemotherapy
By limiting these in your diet, you can lower your risk of colorectal cancer.
Red or processed meat & food
What is Skin Cancer?
Cancer is where skin cells grow abnormally, which is normally seen as a mole or spots that change shape, color, or size.
What is the term that describes a solid mass of abnormal cells that forms when cells divide more than they should?
A Tumor
What is the most important risk factor for developing cancer?
Aging
What type of treatment uses high-energy rays, such as X-rays, to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors?
Radiation Therapy
What is considered the most effective way to prevent skin cancer?
Using sunscreen
What are the leading causes of Breast Cancer?
Genetics (Heredity), Hormones, & Age
Cancer forms because of...
uncontrolled cell division
What is the single most preventable cause of cancer in the U.S?
Cigarette Smoking
CAR-T therapy is a cutting-edge form of this treatment, which stimulates a patient's own immune system to fight cancer.
Immunotherapy
What vaccine can lower the risk of developing cervical, throat, and other cancers?
The HPV Vaccine
What are the most distinguishable symptoms of Leukemia?
Frequent Infections & Extreme Fatigue
What is the process, that is often called "programmed cell death," that allows cancer cells to survive when they should normally die?
Apoptosis
What is the main cause of Colon Cancer?
An unhealthy diet
What procedure is often used for blood cancers that replaces damaged stem cells with healthy ones from a donor or the patient's own body?
A bone marrow transplant
This type of test, often done at a doctor's office, can find cervical cancer cells before they become invasive.
Pap Test
What is the survival rate of Lung Cancer?
25%
Unlike a benign growth, this type of tumor is considered cancerous because it can spread to other parts of the body.
malignant
What gene normally helps cells grow, but when mutated, can transform a normal cell into a cancer cell?
An oncogene
Unlike chemotherapy, these specialized drugs target specific molecular changes, such as genetic mutations, found only in cancer cells.
Targeted Therapies
Aside from not smoking, these are the most important factors in lowering the risk of breast cancer.
Maintaining a healthy weight & limiting alcohol
What is the most common type of Cancer?
Breast Cancer
What is the process by which cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel through the blood to start new tumors elsewhere?
Metastasis
What is believed to cause cancer?
Mutagens in the gene that code for enzymes that regulate the cell cycle.