Transcript GRAVITY - Redfield College

Cancer
Jeremy Doowage
Science Honours Presentation
What is cancer?
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broad group of diseases
unregulated cell growth
forming tumours, and invading parts of the body.
Lead to death
Specific symptoms
Cancer stats
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124,910 diagnosis this year
1/ 2 men
1/ 3 women
43,700 people have died from cancer in 2011. (3/10)
$3.8 billion WHILST $378 million
Types of cancer
What happens?
Early detection?
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detected early stage treatment more effective
breast cancer, cervical cancer, bowel cancer, prostate cancer.
know your own body. notice any changes, see your doctor.
Why is prevention so important
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1/9 cancers, 1/5 cancer deaths, are due to smoking
3% of cancers are related to alcohol
direct result of dietary influences, from infectious agents or exposure to radiation
some cancers result from inherited genes
cancer is NOT caused by injury or stress.
Breast Cancer
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13,700 people
1/ 8 women
1/ 724 men
Mammographic/ two years
Pain is rare
Age, history, female hormones ,obesity ,excess alcohol
Treatment extent of cancer
Skin Cancer
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95 - 99%
melanoma , basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma
2/3 diagnosis
1982 -2007 diagnoses increased 150%
More common In men
2000 died
non-healing sores
red, pale ,pearly lumps
new spots/changing in colour,/thickness /shape
Prostate Cancer
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19,400
1 in 5 men.
2,938
13% in Australian men.
PSA tests
Symptoms in Urine
No Prevention
Treatment= Cancer
Old Methods
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mammograms
X-ray computed tomography
HPV
PSA tests
Gene testing
The problems with these
Microwave tomography imaging
KNOWN AS MTI
How MTI breaks down the images
Who Made this?
Benefits
Costs
Cost
MRI
$2.5milliom-$4million
Mammography
$300,000
MTI
$100,000
Treatment
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Surgery
Chemotherapy
Hormone therapy
Radiotherapy
 a curative treatment, often in association with other approaches
 to relieve pain and discomfort associated with incurable disease.
What should we do?
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