Cancer Treatment
High energy waves that destroy cancer cells.
What is radiotherapy?
The spreading of cancer to other parts in the body.
What is Metastasize?
Weak or slow urinary stream, blood in urine, erectile disfunction
What are symptoms of prostate cancer?
Awareness
What is learning about causes, symptoms and cures?
Process of using low energy x-rays to examine breasts for diagnosis and screening.
What is a mammogram?
The use of oral and intraveneous medicine to slow growth or remove cancer cells.
What is chemotherapy?
The specialist in the treatment of cancer.
What is an Oncologist?
Ethnicity, Age, Genetics
What are risk factors for Prostate Cancer?
Both Men and Women
What gender can get breast cancer?
Annual Campaign to raise awareness about the impact of breast cancer.
What is Breast Cancer Awareness Month?
The use of vaccines and bacteria to stimulate the body's response to cancer cells.
What is Immunotherapy?
A cancer causing agent.
What is a carcinogen?
Older African American men whose male family members have been diagnosed with this are high risk.
What is prostate cancer?
When cancer comes back after remission.
What is relapse?
New lumps in breasts or arm pits
What are symptoms of breast cancer?
Process when hormones are used to slow cancer growth.
What is hormone therapy?
A group of uncontrollably dividing cells that can be benign or malignant.
What is a tumor?
The smallest unit of genetic material.
What is a cell?
Risks or discomfort due to treatment.
What are side effects?
You check yourself for signs or symptoms.
What is breast self-examination?
A procedure used to remove all or most of the malignant tumors in a person.
What is surgery?
A disorder in the structure or function of a human body.
What is disease?
Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test
What is a blood test used primarily to screen for prostate cancer?
Surveillance, radiation, prostatectomy
What are treatments for Prostate Cancer?
Lumpectomy and mastectomy
What are Breast Cancer surgical procedures?