Cancer

Question 1

What is cancer caused by?

Answer 1

Result of changes of uncontrolled cell growth and division that results in the formation of tumours

Question 2

What are benign tumours?

Answer 2

Where the tumour grows until there’s no more room. The tumour stays in one place (usually within a membrane) they do not invade other tissues of the body.
They aren’t dangerous and the tumour isn’t cancerous

Question 3

What are malignant tumour cells?

Answer 3

Where the tumour grows and spreads to neighbouring healthy tissues and spread to other parts of the body by travelling in the bloodstream where they form secondary tumours. They are dangerous and can be fatal

Question 4

Name 4 lifestyle risk factors that can be associated with cancer

Answer 4

1. Smoking- lung cancer
2. Obesity- liver cancer
3. UV exposure- skin cancer
4. Viral infection - liver cancer

Question 5

Name 2 risk factors associated with genetics

Answer 5

1. You can inherit faulty genes- more susceptible to cancer

2. Mutations in the BRCA genes - breast/ ovarian cancer