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SYMPTOMS / CAUSES
CAUSES/RISKS
PREVENTION
PROGNOSIS
GENIE IN A BOTTLE
100
If a child is complaining of leg pain, could cancer be the cause?
What is yes, because cancer can affect any age in any location?
100
I have cancer and want to know what caused it.
What is it probably developed over time and could result from different causes?
100
Developing healthy behavior habits.
What is the best way for individuals to decrease their risk of developing cancer?
100
The best news you could hear regarding your skin cancer diagnosis.
What is it is benign?
100
Cancer cells are made to divide more rapidly because of these.
What are damaged genes?
200
Multiple exposures to carcinogens over time.
What is the MOST LIKELY reason cancer develops?
200
Cancer can develop decades after exposure to carcinogens.
What is the relationship between exposure to carcinogens and the development of cancer?
200
Banning cigarette smoking in public places.
What is the best example of government regulation to minimize exposure to carcinogens?
200
This is the factor that will MOST LIKELY increase a person's chance of developing cancer.
What is aging?
200
Normal cell growth cycle is regulated by these.
What are genes?
300
This is the group most likely to develop cancer.
What are old men?
300
Cigarettes and exposure to the sun will increase a person's risk for developing cancer.
What is the relationship between cigarette smoking and exposure to the sun to the development of cancer?
300
Healthcare workers participate in cancer prevention by doing this.
What is they routinely perform cancer screening?
300
I am told I have brain cancer and the mortality rate is 75%. This means...
What is there is a 75% chance I will not be alive in 5 years.
300
Cancer is caused by this kind of damage to cells over time.
What is genetic damage?
400
Coal tar and radium are both examples of this.
What are known carcinogens?
400
Heredity contributes to the development of cancer.
What is the relationship between heredity and the development of cancer?
400
Some people will inherit a disposition to develop cancer and this means...
What is they are more likely to develop cancer than the general population?
400
I am told I have skin cancer with a survival rate of 99% and this means...
What is by chance of a cure is excellent?
400
Cancer results froma breakdown of this normal body process.
What is cell division and growth?
500
This is the MOST LIKELY reason a person may develop cancer decades later after a exposure.
What are severe sunburns as a child?
500
The biggest risk factor I can have if I am 26 years old, fair-skinned, visited the Congo and now work as a receptionist in an Oncology office.
What is my fair skin.
500
Most skin cancers could be prevented if the government could pose a regulation to require children to wear this.
What are protective headwear and clothing when outside during peak hours of UV exposure?
500
A malignant cancer is in this stage of tumor development.
What is invasion or invasive?
500
When a cell mutation occurs, this is what happens to the cells that mutate.
What is there is a change in the way the cell functions or develops?