Cancer Awareness

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Cancer Awareness

• Lesson 4 Slide 1
• Cancer Lifestyle, Causes and Treatment

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Learning Objectives Slide 2

• How to keep healthy and what influences
  health.
• Know and understand how lifestyle can affect
  health
• Know how to reduce the risks

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Seget Slide 3 A
new drug in an easy to take tablet form

• Makes you alert
• Speeds up the heart rate
• More prone to heart attack
• Raises blood pressure
• Links to cervical, stomach, leukaemia and bladder
  cancer
• Can make you sexually impotent
• Increases blood sugar
• Reduces oxygen to the skin causing greying
• Depletes vitamins
• Addictive

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Cigarette Facts Questionnaire
Slide 4

• 1.How many people are killed in the UK each year
  by tobacco use?
• 50,000, 75,000, 100,000 or 125,000
• 2. What of regular smokers will be killed by
  their habit?
• 25, 50 or 75.
• 3. What of all deaths from lung cancer are
  caused by smoking?
• 20, 50, 80 or 100

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Facts about Cigarettes Slide 5

• Tobacco use kills around 114,000 people in the UK
  every year, more than 300 every day - as if a
  plane crashed every day and killed all its
  passengers,  around 20 of all deaths.
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• About half of all regular cigarette smokers will
  eventually be killed by their habit.
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• Smoking causes at least 80 of all deaths from
  lung cancer, around 80 of all deaths from
  bronchitis and emphysema and around 17 of all
  deaths from heart disease.
• Thirty per cent of all cancer deaths can be
  attributed to smoking.  Cancers other than lung
  cancer which are linked to smoking include
• cervical cancer, cancers of the mouth, lip and
  throat cancer, pancreas, bladder,
• kidney, stomach, liver and Leukaemia. 
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• Fewer than 10 of lung cancer patients survive
  five years after diagnosis

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Normal lung on the left Slide 6Cancerous
lung on the right
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Statistics Slide 7

• In the UK, one person every fifteen minutes is
  diagnosed with lung cancer. 
• Around 38,400 new patients annually diagnosed
  with lung cancer 
• Around 33,600 deaths each year, accounting for 6
  of all deaths and 22 of all cancer deaths in the
  UK.
• Over 90 of patients with oral cancer use tobacco
  by either smoking or chewing it.
• Approximately 24 of kidney cancer cases in men
  and 9 in women can be attributed to smoking.

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Facts about Alcohol Slide 8

• Cancers related to alcohol include those of the
  liver, mouth and food pipe, colon, rectum and
  breast cancer in women.
• heavy drinking increases risks of mouth and food
  pipe cancers by 5 to 10 times.
• 2000 cases of breast cancer in the UK every year
  linked to alcohol.
• death rates from breast cancer are 30 higher in
  women drinking just one daily drink

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How does alcohol increase risk of cancer?
Slide 9

• Alcohol makes it easier for dangerous chemicals
  to be absorbed in the mouth or throat. This
  includes the chemicals in tobacco that can cause
  cancer.
• Alcohol can increase the level of hormones such
  as oestrogen in the body. Unusually high levels
  of oestrogen could cause breast cancer.

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• 
  Slide 10
• Sun is good for you but burning is not! !

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Mole Slide 11
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How do I know if I have a Melanoma?
Slide 12

• Is the mole spreading?
• Has the mole changed shape?
• Has the mole started to itch?
• Has the mole a number of different shades of
  brown or black?
• Is the mole inflamed, weeping or bleeding?

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Melanoma Slide 13
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SMART Slide 14

• Spend time in the shade between 11 am and 3 pm.
• Make sure you never burn
• Aim to cover up with a tee shirt, hat and
  sunglasses
• Remember to take extra care with children
• Then use factor 15
• Reapply sun cream regularly hourly if possible or
  go no longer than 2 hours.

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Learning Outcome Slide 15

• Know the procedures and the treatments available
  for someone who has cancer

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• What to do if worried ?
  Slide 16
• 1) Go to the doctor no further action needed
• 2) Sent to the hospital no further action
  needed
• 3) Scan or tests may show benign
• 4) Diagnosed - malignant
• 5) Treatment

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Some treatments available Slide 17

• Radiotherapy
• Chemotherapy
• Hormonal
• Surgery
• Biological
• Stem Cell
• Supportive therapies
• Complementary

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Websites Slide 18

• www.click4tic.org.uk/understandit/typesofcancer/wo
  rriedyoumighthavecancer
• www.click4tic.org.uk/understandit/testsscans/types
  oftestsscans
• www.click4tic.org.uk/understandit/treatments