A chronic condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar (glucose).
What is diabetes?
100
An x-ray procedure used to detect breast cancer.
What is a mammogram?
100
This is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the U.S.
What is colorectal cancer?
100
This is the leading cause of preventable death.
What is Smoking?
100
This is a disease for men ONLY.
What is colon cancer?
FACT: Colon cancer is just as common among women as men.
200
This helps control diabetes by keeping blood sugar from rising.
What is insulin?
200
Lack of physical activity, poor diet, being overweight and alcohol consumption may increase risk for this disease.
What are some risk factors for breast cancer?
200
This age is recommended by experts to begin routine colorectal cancer screening.
What is age 50?
200
This is a very addictive drug that is found naturally in tobacco.
What is nicotine?
200
The majority of this cancer type only runs in families through heredity.
What is breast cancer?
FACT: 90% of breast cancer is caused by environmental risk factors.
300
Lifestyle, heredity, and other factors, such as certain viruses, may increase risk for this disease.
What are some risk factors for diabetes?
300
Caffeine, deodorant, microwaves and cell phones are things that should not be affiliated with causing this disease.
What are things that do not cause breast cancer?
300
This procedure detects colorectal cancer at an early stage, when treatment is most effective.
What is colorectal cancer screening?
300
This is a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals and about 70 can cause cancer.
What is tobacco smoke?
300
There is no treatment for this disease.
What is the treatment for chlamydia?
FACT: Antibiotics can easily treat chlamydia.
400
Type 2 diabetes accounts for this percentage of all diagnosed cases.
What is 90% to 95%?
400
This is the second leading cause of cancer death among women and the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women.
What is breast cancer?
400
Heavy alcohol use, lack of exercise and diets high in red and processed meats can create chemicals in your food that may increase your risk of this cancer.
What are some lifestyle choices that can impact colorectal cancer?
400
When smokers do this, it can lower risk for lung cancer and many other types of cancer, heart disease and stroke.
What are some health benefits to quitting smoking?
400
Insulin can cure this disease.
What is the cure for diabetes?
FACT: Insulin is not a cure for diabetes. There is no cure; there are only medicine and behaviors that can control diabetes.
500
This disease is the leading cause of adult onset blindness.
What is diabetes?
500
This is 50-75% of breast cancer that begins in this part of the breasts.
What is are milk ducts?
500
Colonoscopy; sigmoidoscopy; at-home tests like the fecal occult blood test (FIT kits) are examples of this type of screening.
What are the different type of colorectal screenings?
500
They die on average 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers.
What is the life expectancy of someone who smokes?
500
This behavior can bother people around me, but isn’t dangerous.
What is secondhand smoke?
FACT: Secondhand smoke kills thousands of people every year from exposure.