Types of Cancer
This type of cancer is diagnosed primarily in women and involves the mammary glands.
What is breast cancer
True or False: Family history can affect your risk of developing cancer.
True
This common form of treatment for cancer involves using drugs to kill cancer cells.
What is Chemotherapy
True or false - cancer is due to a mutation
These two cancers are the most common type of cancers.
What is lung cancer and breast cancer
This lifestyle choice significantly increases the risk of developing cancer, and is proven to cause up to 90% of lung cancer deaths in the US
What is smoking
This treatment uses high-energy x-rays or other types of radiation to kill cancer cells or keep them from growing and dividing.
What is radiation therapy
Name 4 different types of Cancers
Breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer (answers may vary)
This type of cancer affects the blood cells and bone marrow
What is leukemia
This age group is most affected by cancer
What is 50 and older?
Name 2 side effects of cancer treatments that cancer patients face.
What is: radiation burn, hair loss, nausea, vomiting
This is the cancer of this month’s cancer awareness month.
What is Brain cancer
This term describes cancer that has not spread to other parts of the body and is located only in the original site.
What is “localized”
You should partake in this simple act daily to lower the risk of certain cancers such as breast, prostate, and colon.
This groundbreaking cancer treatment, discovered in the 1980s, involves the use of monoclonal antibodies to target specific proteins on cancer cells.
What is targeted therapy
Terry Fox was diagnosed with this type of cancer.
What is bone cancer (osteogenic sarcoma)
This type of cancer starts to show on your skin and spreads really quickly to the point it is life threating in six weeks
What is Melanoma
Which type of radiation, found naturally in the environment, is a risk factor for lung cancer?
What is Radon
Before cells metastasize, cancer can be potentially treated with this.
What is surgery
This animal species is commonly used in cancer research due to its biological similarities to humans