Cancer and carcinogens

Question 1

Causes of cancer

Answer 1

Smoking
Sun exposure
Smoked food
Alcohol

Question 2

Types of cancer?

Answer 2

Skin
breast
blood
bowel
stomach
mouth
lounge
bone

Question 3

What’s a carcinogen?

Answer 3

Chemicals and other agents that cause cancer
They cause cancer by damaging DNA

Question 4

What is cancer?

Answer 4

When mutated cells spread and infect healthy cells, causing the growth of tumors

Question 5

What are the two types of tumors?

Answer 5

Benign and malignant

Question 6

What’s a benign tumour?

Answer 6

A tumour that grows slowly within a membrane

Question 7

What’s a malignant tumour?

Answer 7

A tumour that grows quickly and invades neighbouring tissue.

Question 8

How are secondary tumours formed?

Answer 8

Mutated cells break of and cause secondary tumours elsewhere in the body.

Question 9

What’s it called when mutated cells break off?

Answer 9

Metastasis

Question 10

7 stages of the cancer cycle?

Answer 10

1) Mutation
2) Primary tumour
3) Vascularisation
4) Detachment
5) Intravation
6) Invasion
7) Secondary tumour