Understanding Cancer

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Understanding Cancer
By Kayla
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What you will be learning about?

• What are the 8 warning Signs of possible
  Childhood Cancer?
• What is Cancer?
• What are the different kinds of Cancer?

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The 8 Warning Sign Of Possible
Childhood Cancer

• Unexplained weight loss
• Headaches with vomiting in the morning
• Swelling or persistent pain in the bones or
  joints
• Lumps or mass in abdomen, neck or else where

• 5. Develoment of a whitish appearance in the
  pupil of the eye
• 6. Recurrent fevers are not due to infection
• 7. Excessive bruising or bleeding
• 8. Noticeable paleness or tiredness

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What is Cancer?

• Cancer is a group of many related diseases that
  have to do with cells.
• Cells make up all living thing.
• Cancer happens when sick cells spread quickly.
• Cancer cells dont die.
• Cancer cells can destroy normal cells.
• Cancer spreads when the cells break away from
  original tumors.

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What are the different kinds of Cancer?

• Breast Cancer
• Colon Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Prostate Cancer
• Hodgkins Disease
• Leukemias
• Lymphomas
• Multiple Myeloma
• Waldenstrom Disease
• Testis Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer
• Gynecological Cancer
• Choriocarcinoma
• Nasopharyngeal Cancer
• Retroperitoneal Sarcomas

• Malignant Melanoma
• Skin Cancer
• Head and Neck Cancer
• Esophageal Cancer
• Stomach Cancer
• Cancer of Pancreas
• Liver Cancer
• Anal Cancer
• Kidney Cancer
• Bladder Cancer
• Brain Tumor
• Bone Tumor
• Carcinoid Tumor
• Soft Tissue Tumor
• Thyroid Cancer

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Lung Cancer

• Cancer in your lungs
• Second most common cancer for men and woman.
• 170,000 people are diagnosed with lung cancer.
• The average age of people who have cancer is 60
  years old.

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Breast Cancer

• Most common cancer in women.
• Most common in women after 40.
• Out of every 180,000 cases 44,000 will die.

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Colon Cancer

• Cancer in in the colon
• Your colon is your small and large intestines.
• Third most common cancer in men and women.
• Out of every 131,000 cases 55,000 will die.

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Reference Slide

• Your Health-textbook 1999 Harcourt Brace
  Publishers New York pages 206-207
• www.tigan.com by Dr. Tirgan 1996-2007
• www.kidshealth.org By Steven Powshen August 2005