Common Misconceptions?
This sweet substance causes cancer
Sugar
This cancer is rising fastest in young adults globally.
Colorectal
Blood in the stool that continues for several weeks
Colorectal
This cancer is the most common worldwide among men
Prostate
These therapies were the first discovered to treat cancer. Known as nitrogen-mustards
Chemotherapy (Alkylating Agents)
You can catch cancer from someone else? (T/F)
FALSE
Vaccination against this virus can prevent certain types of cancer.
HIV/Hep B
Difficulty swallowing that gets progressively worse over time.
Oral
This cancer is the most common worldwide among women
Breast
These are used to treat gynecological cancers (Breast, Prostate, Testicular, Ovarian, etc) by targeting the various aromatase inhibitors
Hormonal
Only women get breast cancer (T/F)
FALSE
This is the number of people estimated to die from cancer globally every year.
~10 Million
Painless jaundice (yellowing of the skin) developing in an older adult with no history of liver disease.
Pancreatic
This cancer has subtypes like squamous cell and adenocarcinoma, and it’s linked to smoking and pollution
Lung
These agents allow your T cells to recognize and attack cancer cells. They are the current mainstay of therapy
Immunotherapy
These remedies often lead to delays or interactions with someone's therapy
Naturopathic medicine
This part of the world has rising cases of esophageal cancer due to hot tea drinking and poor nutrition
East-Africa and Central Asia
Swollen armpit and neck that persists for more than 6 weeks without infection
Lymphoma
This solid tumor in lymph nodes or organs is a type of blood cancer
Lymphoma
This off-the-shelf therapy binds a T cell and a cancer cell - putting them in close proximity causing cell-death
Bi-specific therapy
Cancer is one single disease. (Big Pharma is obviously hiding the cure)
Every single cancer is its own "disease". The problem is that it isn't a typical disease, they're just cells that have mutated and evade the immune system à la survival of the fittest. I sit because I fit.
This country has one of the highest cancer survival rates in the world.
Japan
Abdominal bloating, early satiety, and pelvic pain that has developed recently in a post-menopausal woman
Ovarian
This kind of brain tumor can be cancerous or noncancerous depending on its grade
Glioma
This is one of the newer therapies, where someones immune cells are removed, trained to fight cancer, then put back in the body
CAR-T cell therapy