1. What is Cancer?
a. Cancer is refers to a broad group of diseases where cells divide
and grow uncontrollably,
develop malignant tumors and spread to nearby parts of the body.
b.
2. What
is the history of Cancer?
a.
Some of the earliest evidence of cancer was found among fossilized bone tumors,
human mummies in ancient Egypt.
b.
Cancer is the Latin word for crab. The fingerlike projections in cancer cells
are in the shape of a crab.
3. What
are the types of Cancer?
a. There are a huge variety of cancer
types.
b. The main types of Cancer are: Bone,
Brain, Breast,
Cervical,
Eye, Kidney, Leukemia, Liver, Lung, Ovarian, Prostate, Skin, Stomach.
4.
Childhood Cancer
a.
Leukemia is the most common cancer in children and teens.
b.
Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is the most curable cancer.
c.
ALL is where the bone marrow makes too many white blood cells.
d.
Bone marrow makes blood stem cells (immature cells)
d.1.Myeloid
stem cell
d.1.a. Red blood cell that carry oxygen and other substances
to all tissues in body
d.1.b. Platelets that form blood clots to stop bleeding.
d.1.c. White blood cells that fight infection/disease
d.2. lymphoid stem cell
d.2.a. B-lymphocytes that make antibodies to help fight
infection.
d.2.b. T lymphocytes that help B-lymphocytes make the
antibodies that help fight infections
d.2.c. Natural killer cells that attack cancer cells and
viruses.
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