Lung Cancer 101
This is the most common type of non-small cell lung cancer and can occur in people who have never smoked.
What is adenocarcinoma?
This is the leading risk factor for lung cancer, accounting for approximately 80% of cases according to the presentation.
What is smoking?
Name one of the three conventional lung cancer treatments listed in the presentation.
What are chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery?
What is Baylor University's mascot's name?
Bruiser and Marigold
These three letters stand for the most common type of primary liver cancer discussed in last week's presentation.
What is HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma)?
This type of lung cancer accounts for approximately 10–15% of cases and tends to spread quickly.
What is small cell lung cancer?
This naturally occurring radioactive gas is identified in the presentation as the second-largest cause of lung cancer.
What is radon?
This organization focuses on lung cancer education, community, and challenging the belief that lung cancer is always untreatable
What is the White Ribbon Project?
Baylor University is located in this Texas city
What is Waco?
This viral infection can be prevented with a vaccine and is a major risk factor for liver cancer.
What is hepatitis B?
These flat cells line the airways, and cancer arising from them is associated with smoking.
What are squamous cells?
According to the presentation, exposure to this can increase the lung cancer risk of adults who don't smoke by 20–30%.
What is secondhand smoke?
This organization provides research grants, connects patients with clinical trials, and runs the Breath of Honor initiative.
What is the Lung Cancer Foundation of America?
This river runs through Waco near Baylor's campus.
What is the Brazos River?
Unlike a deceased donor, this person donates part of their liver while alive; the liver can regenerate after donation.
What is a living liver donor?
According to the presentation's 2025 estimates, approximately this many Americans would be diagnosed with lung cancer.
What is 226,650?
This number of cigarettes is equivalent to 20 pack-years
What is 146,000
The American Lung Association describes these internalized feelings as a consequence of lung cancer stigma.
What are guilt or shame?
Baylor's intercollegiate athletic teams compete in this NCAA conference.
What is the Big 12 Conference?
PHY906 is an investigational treatment discussed in the presentation as a potential way to improve cancer treatment outcomes inspired by this kind of regional medicine.
eastern, Chinese, natural
More people in the United States die from lung cancer each year than from these three cancers combined.
What are colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers?
Name two non-tobacco-related exposures discussed in the presentation that can increase lung cancer risk.
What are radon, asbestos, diesel exhaust, or air pollution? Any two.
Explain why assuming that every lung cancer patient smoked can be harmful, based on the presentation's discussion of stigma and advocacy.
It can blame or shame patients, reinforce stigma, and lead to presumptions or unfair treatment.
Baylor was founded in this year, making it the oldest continually operating university in Texas.
What is 1845?
Name two ways discussed in the presentation to reduce liver cancer risk
Hepatitis B vaccination, hepatitis C testing and treatment, and appropriate surveillance for high-risk individuals.