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
Tumor growth can cause the loss of pancreatic function. Another characteristic of pancreatic cancer is that metastasis happens early in tumor growth, which is most likely responsible for pancreatic cancer’s aggressive nature.
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';).
According to American Cancer Society, statistic shows over 228,190 new cases of lung cancer are reported yearly, that’s 57% men and 43% women of the pie. The number shows lung cancer is likely happen to men. Also the estimated reported death is 159,480, mostly 54% men and only 46% women. The concern on lung cancer contributes 27% of the cancer death in United States. The contribution of lung cancer plays a big pie on many deaths in American. Also, most of the patients are men. The chance that a man will develop lung cancer in his lifetime is about 1 in 13; for a woman, the risk is about 1 in 16. These numbers include both smokers and non-smokers. For smokers the risk is much higher, while for non-smokers the risk is lower. (Accor...
When you think of lung cancer, you think of smoking, it is the most common cause of cancer but there are many other causes that people don’t think about. You don’t have to be a smoker to develop lung cancer, secondhand smoke, radon, diesel exhaust, air pollution, and some gene changes cause lung cancer as well. The genes that help a cell grow, divide, or stay alive are called oncogenes. The genes that slow down cell division, or cause calls to die when they are supposed to, are called tumor suppressor genes. Cancer can be caused when these oncogenes turn on, or even when these tumor suppressor genes decide to turn off. Most of the genes that cause lung cancer are developed through your life; inherited genes rarely play a huge factor in lung cancer.
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.
Although there are many causes of Pancreatic Cancer, there are also various ways to prevent the risk of being diagnosed with this often preventable disease.
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
Pancreatic cancer begins when cells in the pancreas start to grow uncontrollably and exocrine cancers are by far the most common type of pancreas cancer (American Cancer Society,
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 ...
As stated in “Winning the Battle Against Lung Cancer”written by the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, “Their five-year survival rate was 4 percent from the time they were first diagnosed”(Seattle Cancer Care Alliance). In later