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Colon Cancer Pancreatic Cancer Testicular Caner Lung Cancer Prostate Cancer Skin Cancer Mouth Cancer Throat Cancer Tongue Cancer Eye Cancer Leukemia Breast Cancer Bladder Cancer Anal Cancer Kidney Cancer Cervical Cancer Thyroid Cancer Stomach Cancer Esophageal Cancer Lymphoma Bone Cancer Liver Cancer Spinal Cancer Brain Cancer Adrenal Cancer Bile Duct Cancer Rectum Cancer Enodmetrial Cancer Gall Bladder Cancer Nasal Cancer Ovarian Cancer Penile Cancer Salivary Gland Cancer Small Intestine Cancer Thymus Cancer Uterine Cancer Vaginal Cancer Vulvar Cancer Urethral Cancer
 * __Possible Cancers__**



~Cancer Statistics~

 * Cancer is #2 cause of death behind heart disease in US (23%)
 * Heart disease has decreased significantly in numbers of death since 1950
 * Cancer has not changed dramatically
 * Most common cancer is lung & bronchus cancer
 * Second most common for men: prostate
 * for women: breast
 * There are more male deaths from cancer since 1950
 * Lung cancer significantly increased in the past for men, but now is starting to decrease as far as death rates
 * African-Americans are the race with the most cancer deaths
 * Asian/Pacific Islanders (in the U.S.) have the least
 * Most common cases of cancer for men is prostate (29%)
 * Most common cases for women annually is breast (26%)
 * 1 in 6 men will develop prostate cancer
 * 1 in 12 lung
 * 1 in 17 colon
 * For WOMEN:
 * 1 in 8 breast
 * 1 in 16 lung

~Intro to Cancer Bio~

 * Cancer is the result of a long process from when a cell or tissue becomes damaged within an organ
 * A group of misbehaving cells can cause the same kind of problems that a poorly working organ could cause in the body
 * Bodies, Organs, and Cells
 * Tissue: muscle, nervous, epithelial, and connective
 * Organ: stomach (made of different types of tissue)
 * Cell division
 * two daughter cells are created through mitosis when parent cells split
 * cancer cells divide w/out partners
 * Normal Cell Division
 * told when to begin and stop dividing
 * Tumor cell division
 * tumors come from come from cancer cells that do not have contact inhibition
 * cells gather on top of one another
 * Cellular organelles: nucleus
 * Nucleus is at the center of the cell, the brain of the cell and holds DNA in the form of chromosomes
 * 46 chromosomes to each nucleus
 * Genes: Oncogenes
 * proto-oncogene: information to trigger cell division
 * oncogene: mutation in a proto-oncogene
 * the cell divides without a signal
 * gas pedal down-no foot on the pedal!!!
 * Tumor suppressors
 * are like brakes
 * Cancer cell migration
 * 95% of cancer deaths are due to cancer cells spreading across the body
 * spread when the tumor is fed by blood cells
 * called metastasis