Cancer+Notes+KR

Keaton Rye 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


 * 1) Cancer ranks #2 in % of all deaths in the United States
 * 2) Cancer rates have barley been reduced in over 50 years.
 * 3) Deaths have just started to level off
 * 4) Men mostly die from lung, and colon
 * 5) Women from breast
 * 6) Asian people seem to get the least
 * 7) African American have the most
 * 8) White women are the lowest
 * 9) The rates for African American men are decreasing
 * 10) 1/8 women get breast cancer


 * Bodies, Organs, and Cells
 * various tasks like breathing, blood flow, and digestion are performed by organs.
 * stomach
 * heart
 * lungs
 * tissue is a group of cells that work together to a specific job, muscle tissue, nervous tissue, epithelal tissue, connective tissue
 * Cell division
 * a parent cells splits into two daughter cells through mitosis. they do this through signals.
 * cancer cells divide even if they don't have a signal
 * Normal control of Cell division
 * they are told to divide and when to stop dividing
 * Tumor Cells
 * cancer cells don't have contact inhibition which leads to tumors.
 * cells pile on top of each other
 * Cellular Organelles: Nucleus
 * the nucleus is the brain of a cell and contains DNA in the form of chromosomes
 * there are 46 chromosomes in each human nucleus
 * Genes: Chromosome to DNA
 * Oncogenes
 * divide in the absence of proper signle
 * When you have a mutation in a protooncogen
 * Similar to the gasoline system in cars