In this paper, I am going to address two of the deadliest cancers know to the world those are pancreatic cancer, and lung cancer also I will touch on the effect these cancers has on the human body. In addition, I will also talk about the symptoms, the preventive measures and the stages that can be taken. The images above show were these types of cancers are in the human body.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, among both men and women. Lung cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer. Since most lung cancer is diagnosed at a relatively late stage, only 10% of all lung cancer patients are ultimately cured. The air we breathe contains particles that may be hazardous. The two
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In addition, I will also talk about the symptoms and the facts that can be taken. I also will talk about the stages of pancreatic and how it’s treatable depending on how severe it is.
Some of these risk factors affect the DNA of cells in the pancreas, which can result in abnormal cell growth and may cause tumors to form. Some genes control when our cells grow, divide into new cells and die; genes that help cells grow, divide, and stay alive are called
“oncogenes”, and the ones that help cell under control, repair mistakes in DNA or cause cells to die at the right time are called “tumor suppressor genes”. Some risk factors, like smoking can be changed but when you have a family history about having can’t be changed. Risk factors that can be changed: Tobacco use – about 20% to 30% are to be caused by cigarette, cigar, pipe smoking and smokeless tobacco products; Overweight and obesity- very overweight people have about 20% more likely to have pancreatic
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Pancreatic cancer in diets that are high in red and processed meats and low in fruits and vegetables have an unclear effect on risk as well as physical activity because they might increase pancreatic cancer rate. About 25% of cases are linked to smoking,[3] and 5–10% are linked to inherited genes. Family history; 5–10% of pancreatic cancer cases have an inherited component, where people have a family history of pancreatic
The most common of these is the adenocarcinoma, which begins in the ducts of the pancreas and makes up about 95% of the exocrine cancers. When you think of the repercussions of smoking, you often think of lung cancer, but smoking also increases your chances of getting pancreatic cancer by almost 50%. You are twice as likely to get pancreatic cancer if you smoke than you would if you didn't. In addition, overweight people are twenty percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer can also be hereditary, and you can be at a higher risk because of an inherited syndrome.
Demographically, the risk of getting pancreatitis increases with age. The incidence rate is approximately 20 cases per 100 000 people. Statistically, males are prone to ...
Cancer is a class of diseases that are caused mostly by out of control cell growth, and pancreatic cancer occurs when uncontrolled cell growth begins in the pancreas. Abnormal cells continue to divide in the pancreas to the point where the create tumors in the pancreas. Pancreatic cancer is catergorized depending on whether or not the exocrine or endocrine of the pancreas. There has to be an important distinction between the two broad types of pancreatic cancer because there are different risk factors, causes, symptoms, diagnostic tests, prognoses, and treatments.
The world we live in can be wonderful at times,but can also be dangerous and danger isn’t a good place to start at.The word cancer seems terrifying when someone thinks about it and they should be because there is a lot of types of cancer from all over the word.Cancer is the leading causes of death everywhere you go and it happens from different parts of the body.From someone that doesn’t understand cancer it’s very important to know about the aspects in which they come around.They way a cancer forms,symptons that are caused,and the way each cancer type is treated is very important to consider.
The purpose of this paper is to describe the diagnosis and staging of cancer, complications of cancer, the side effects of the cancer treatment, and methods to lessen the physical and psychological effects of cancer.
There are more than a million people suffer from cancer in the United States every day. Lung cancer is not the only type of cancer but it affects many people and families every day. Lung cancer makes the lives of its patients and the families. Lung cancer is one of the deadliest types of cancer and also one of the most common. Hundreds of thousands of people get diagnosed with lung cancer every year in just the United States. Also close to just as many people die from lung cancer in the US every year. I am going to talk about lung cancer and what it is, how to lower your risk of getting it, statistics of it, and the research and treatment of it.
In the United States 85 to 90 percent of all lung cancer cases are related to smoking. Cigarette smoking is the main cause of lung cancer (Scientific American, “Lung Cancer';). Second-hand smoke, inhaled by non-smokers, increases a person’s chance of acquiring lung cancer (Beau Halton). Men who smoke increase their chance of dying from lung cancer about 23 times and women increase their chances 13 times (“Lung Cancer Awareness Campaign,'; 3/23/99). However, lung cancer may also be caused by long term exposure to radon, a naturally present radioactive gas (SIRS, “What is Cancer?';). The residue of burned petroleum and coal can contribute to lung cancer (Scientific American, “Lung Cancer';). The development of lung cancer seems to be also affected by genes. The gene histidine triad blocks the formation of tumors, so a defective gene could make one more likely to form a tumor (Microsoft, “Lung Cancer';).
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...ents are diagnosed at a late stage when any curative method of treatment is not possible. Lung cancer is dangerous, it takes more lives per year than breast cancer, colon cancer, and prostate cancer combined. It’s harder to treat lung cancer than these other types of cancers. The last additional fact I learned was that every year in the United States about 200,000 people are diagnosed with lung cancer, and more than 159,000 die from this disease.
Cancer has become the one of the most feared things for human beings. The various type of cancer have been discovered and there are still a lot of it that undiscoverable. Cancer is a complex disease that have a group of disease. The cancer itself cannot be describe by words. The causes of this cancer is still not being able to be discovered fully. There are only minor factor that can lead to this disease. The carcinogens are believed to be one of the causes that lead to cancer such as asbestos, radon gas, tobacco, PVC and much more from our chemical industries. The environment especially near to the industrial that produce chemical waste can be one of the causes lead to cancer. Cancer also have relation with our age, lifestyle, and diet and also can be genetically inherited. It is believed that older people have higher tendency to get cancer than younger people. Our lifestyle and diet also plays a role causing a cancer by our daily life routine. Smoking tobacco and eating unconsciously (still in research) can also increase the possibility to get cancer especially lung cancer that cause by smoking tobacco. There are several cases, cancer were inherited from their parents. Various type of viruses such as HIV, HPV, EBV and many more virus has a high capabilities to increase the chance a patient to get a cancer because these viruses lower their body immunity to disease.
Pancreatic Cancer is also caused by damage to DNA, which can be inherited from parents or from aging. Smokers double their chances of developing Pancreatic Cancer versus if they did not smoke. The reason that smokers double their chances of developing this type of cancer is because smoking directly affects the pancreas. Not only does smoking actual cigarettes cause an increase in the risk of being diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer, but also smokeless toba...
Cancer is a major public health problem in many parts of the world. Over ten million new cases of cancer, with over six million deaths were estimated in the year 2000 (Parkin, 2001). The estimated numbers of incidence and mortality in 2002 were markedly increased as 10.9 million new cases, 6.7 million deaths with cancer (Parkin et al., 2005). Even developed countries suffering from cancer, in USA it was expected 2677860 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in 2009. In that same year , more than 562,340 deaths will occur due to cancer, this number represent 25 % of all deaths and makes cancer as a second leading cause of death after heart diseases (Jemal et al.
Lung cancer has been around for hundreds of years. Lung cancer is also the most common cancer. Death is almost absolute if not caught in its early stages. Lung cancer is hard to find because there aren’t symptoms in the early stages. Lung cancer found early enough can be stopped before it spread to other parts of your body. This isn’t definite because cancer can be dormant until later in life and it can be worse than before. Lung cancer can be avoided if you if you make the right choices and take right
For years people have tried to figure out one big question. What is the real cause of cancer? After much research, the statistics say that cancer is a disease of the modern world (Stevenson 1). A few main factors that cause cancer are the use of tobacco, industrial agents, and a person’s weight and diet. (Landau 2-4). The modern environment and everyday lifestyle of people contain factors that cause cancer.
Cancer is defined as where the abnormal cells are divided without any control and they are able to invade into tissues. At times cancer can be cured right away once it is detected through treatments that the doctor recommends, but at times cancer cannot be cured based on what stage the cancer is at. It is very important that every individual gets a physical check up to see if they are diagnosed or detected with any sort of cancer or disease. There are 100 types of cancers out there, but the type of cancer that I will be focusing on is Lung cancer. One of the controversial issues on a lung cancer is the ...