CANCER

CANCER
BY: HAYTHAM NABIL ELSLAHAT Y: HAYTHAM N. ELSALHAT
EVAN VLIETSTRA
CHIDIE OSITA
WHAT IS CANCER HAT IS
CANCER?
• Cancer is a collection of sick blood cells that begin to divide and
spread into surrounding tissues.
• The difference between cancer cells and normal cells is:
 cancer cellls are less specialized then normal cells.
 Cencer cells can ignore the command to die. (i.e continue multiplying
even though the body needs to get rid of cells

• Cancer is a genetic diseas that causes the genes that control the
divison and multiplication of our cells to go haywire.
• Cancer has about 2 different forms of movement patterns.
 Metastatic cells are capable of traveling farther and in a random
manner
 Non metastatic cells move only in a non linear manner.
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• The second most common form of cancer in woman after

skin cancer is breast cancer.
• Breast cancer is cancer that develops in breast cells. Typically
the cancer forms in either the lobules, or the ducts of the
breast.
• Cancer can also occur in the fatty tissue of the breast
• The uncontrolled cells often invade other healthy tissue the
lymph nodes usually tend to be the primary pathway that
help the cancerous cells move through the rest of the body.
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• Men can also get breast cancer .

• According to the American cancer society white men are 100
times less likely to get breast cancer then white women
• African American men are only 70 times less likely to get it
then African American women
TREATMENT AND PREVENTION
OF BREAST CANCER.

• ‘Early detection is the best protection’ your best

bet against cancer.
• There are many treatment options for cancer but
the most common one is surgery.
• Surgical intervention tends to be the most
successful one simply because you go in and
completely remove all the cancerous cells
• Some of the risk factors for breast cancer are:
• Age alcohol consumption
• Gender genes
• Giving birth at an older age