Cancer Risks that People can Control

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Cancer Risks that People can Control

• Andrew Stembridge
• Derek Holdway
• Conner Thrash

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Cancer Risks Categories

• Cancer risks are placed in three categories
• 1) Risks one can fully control
• ex. Behavior
• 2) Risks one can moderately control
• ex. Environmental pollutants
• 3) Risks one can not control
• ex. Gender, genetics, and age

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Tobacco

• Everyone knows smoking is linked to cancer.
  Eighty percent of hospitalized lung caner victims
  are smokers. When researchers spread chemicals
  from tobacco smoke on a patch of living skin,
  cancer develops at the site. About 1/3 of cancer
  deaths are linked to tobacco use. Tobacco leads
  to possible cancer in the Larynx (voice box),
  mouth, esophagus, urinary bladder, kidney,
  pancreas, and many other organs.

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Physical Activities

• People who are active lower their risk of having
  cancer, especially in the colon. Physical
  activity strengthens the muscles used to move the
  bowels and massages the intestines to help move
  their contents along.

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Diet and Alcohol

• Four dietary factors link with high cancer risks
  high meat intakes, high fat intakes, low fruit
  and vegetable intakes, and low grain intakes.
  Alcoholic beverages also contain toxins that may
  initiate cancer of the liver, esophagus, mouth,
  rectum, lungs, and breast. People who take in
  alcohol on a daily basis probably increase their
  risks of some kind of cancer.

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Types of Skin Cancer

• You are always absorbing UV rays overexposure of
  these rays leads to many types of skin cancer.
• There are two distinct types of skin cancer.
  One is called melanoma, and it is a fast
  spreading deadly cancer. The other is a slower
  moving type of surface skin cancer.

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How to Prevent Radiation

1. Try to stay indoors between 10a.m. and 4p.m. that
   is when the suns rays are the strongest.
2. Use sun block when going in the sun, the more SPF
   the more protection.
3. Try going into the sun for frequent short trips,
   instead of one long trip.
4. Test your home for hazardous amounts of radon.

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Vocabulary

1. Melanin- the protective skin pigment that is
   responsible for the tan, brown, or black color of
   skin produced in abundance upon exposure to the
   human skin.
2. Suntan lotion- a lotion that may or may not have
   any sunscreen protection.
3. Sunscreen- a partial block against the cancer
   causing rays of the sun.
4. Sun Block- a total block against the cancer
   causing rays of the sun.
5. Radon- a gas that arises from the Earth where
   radioactive materials are present.