HB+Cancer+Notes

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
 * behind heart disease, cancer is second highest cause of death in US
 * since 1950, heart disease has decreased significantly in numbers of death
 * cancer death rates have no dramatic change
 * lung and bronchus is most common cancer
 * second most common for men: prostate
 * second most for women is breast
 * male cancer death has increased since 1950
 * lung cancer significantly increased for men in past, now decreasing
 * Asian/ pacific islanders are least likely to have cancer
 * African Americans have highest cancer rates
 * one in six men will develop prostate cancer
 * one in twelve lung cancer
 * most common cases annually for women is breast 26%
 * most common cases annually for men is prostate 28%

INTRO CANCER

 * cancer is result of long process when a cell becomes damged within organ
 * group of misbeahaving cells can cause same king of problems that poorly working organ could cause in body
 * within bodies, organs, and cells
 * tissues: muscle, nervous, epithalial and connective
 * organ: stomach, has different types of tissue
 * cell division
 * parent cell splits into two daughter cells by process of mitosis
 * cancer cells divide even without partner
 * normal cell division
 * they are told when to divide and when to stop dividing
 * tumor cell division
 * cancer cells dont have contact inhibition which leads to tumors
 * cells pile on top of each others
 * cellular organelles: nucleus
 * the nucleus is the brain of cell and contains DNA in the form of chromosomes
 * there are 46 chromosomes in each human nucleus
 * gene mutation
 * alteration in a gene is called a mutation
 * chemicals found in cigerettes can cause mutations
 * radiation from sun or tanning bed
 * sometimes mutation just happens
 * proto-concogene is information to trigger cell division
 * angiogensis
 * tumor cells can spend signals so the budy will build blood vessels are tumor
 * metastsis
 * is when the cancer cells travel from the original part of the body or organ to another part of organ of bosy
 * cell death via apostis