Transcript Cancer Prevention Education

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Cancer Education Lesson 2
Reducing the Risks
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Learning Objectives
• How to keep healthy and to know what
influences health.
• To know that food is used as a fuel during
respiration to maintain the body's activity
and as a raw material for growth and
repair
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Learning Outcomes
• Know what causes pre cancerous cells
• Know what causes them to begin to grow
and spread
• Know what can help to prevent cancer
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Definition of Cancer
• Cancer is a class of diseases characterized
by uncontrolled cell division and the ability of
these cells to invade other tissues, either by
direct growth into adjacent tissue (invasion) or
by migration of cells to distant sites (metastasis).
This unregulated growth is caused by a series of
acquired or inherited mutations to DNA within
cells, damaging genetic information that define
the cell functions and removing normal control of
cell division. ...
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OR put another way….
• It is like the breakdown of law and order in
the cell which, if it isn’t policed (the
immune system’s job) and dealt with,
lawlessness and disorder can start to
spread to other cells and other areas.
Systems then begin to collapse and
anarchy reigns (cancer rules)!
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Facts
• The number of new cases annually is estimated
to rise from 10 million to 15 million by 2020.
• Cancer accounts for 7.1 million deaths annually
(12.5% of the global total).
• Dietary factors account for about 30% of all
cancers in Western Countries and approximately
up to 20% in developing
• Approximately 20 million people suffer from
cancer; a figure projected to rise to 30 million
within 20 years.
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Body facts about Cancer
• It is thought that we have around 100,000, 000, 000, 000
cells, in our body, give or take a few!
• There are over 200 types of cancer
• We make between 200 and 1000 pre cancerous cells
everyday (immune system remove them)
• There is no single cause of cancer it is a combination of
occurrences/incidences, “it is a multi stage process”.
• Therefore there is no single treatment
• Although every cancer is unique to that person there can
be similarities
• Scientists still don’t know what causes most cancers
What gets into the body and what we do that affects it Slide 8a
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What gets into the body and what we do that affects it Slide 8b
Food
Sunshine
Drink
Gases
Oxygen
Pesticides
Radiation
Stress
Exercise
Drugs (medicines and
non-medicine
Bacteria/viruses
parasites
Information
A cell
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How Cancer Develops
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Cancer cells entering the blood
stream
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How to reduce the risks of Cancer?
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1. Keep your environment as free from
pollutants as possible
2. Put in substances that help strengthen the
immune system like vitamins, minerals
and antioxidants from your diet
3. Drink plenty of water to help remove
toxins from the body and eat fibre also to
help remove toxins
4. Exercise!
How to help beat Cancer Slide 13
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Strengthen the immune system (do everything from
the previous slide but even more so)
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Surgery and or
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Radiotherapy and or
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Chemotherapy
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Ultrasound/Hormonal/Complementary etc