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Cancer Awareness
Lesson 4
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Cancer – Lifestyle, Causes and
Treatment
Learning Objectives
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• How to keep healthy and what
influences health.
• Know and understand how lifestyle
can affect health
• Know how to reduce the risks
Seget
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A new drug in an easy to take tablet form
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Makes you alert
Speeds up the heart rate
More prone to heart attack
Raises blood pressure
Links to cervical, stomach, leukaemia and bladder
cancer
Can make you sexually impotent
Increases blood sugar
Reduces oxygen to the skin causing greying
Depletes vitamins
Addictive
Cigarette Facts Questionnaire
Slide 4
1.How many people are killed in the UK each year
by tobacco use?
50,000+, 75,000+, 100,000+ or 125,000+
2. What % of regular smokers will be killed by their
habit?
25%, 50% or 75%.
3. What % of all deaths from lung cancer are
caused by smoking?
20%, 50%, 80% or 100%
Facts about Cigarettes
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Tobacco use kills around 114,000 people in the UK every year, more than
300 every day - as if a plane crashed every day and killed all its
passengers, around 20% of all deaths.
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About half of all regular cigarette smokers will eventually be killed by
their habit.
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Smoking causes at least 80% of all deaths from lung cancer, around 80% of
all deaths from bronchitis and emphysema and around 17% of all deaths
from heart disease.
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Thirty per cent of all cancer deaths can be attributed to smoking. Cancers
other than lung cancer which are linked to smoking include:
cervical cancer, cancers of the mouth, lip and throat cancer, pancreas, bladder,
kidney, stomach, liver and Leukaemia.
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Fewer than 10% of lung cancer patients survive five years after diagnosis
Normal lung on the left Slide 6
Cancerous lung on the right
Statistics
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• In the UK, one person every fifteen minutes is
diagnosed with lung cancer.
• Around 38,400 new patients annually diagnosed
with lung cancer
• Around 33,600 deaths each year, accounting for
6% of all deaths and 22% of all cancer deaths in
the UK.
• Over 90% of patients with oral cancer use
tobacco by either smoking or chewing it.
• Approximately 24% of kidney cancer cases in
men and 9% in women can be attributed to
smoking.
Facts about Alcohol
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• Cancers related to alcohol include those of the
liver, mouth and food pipe, colon, rectum and
breast cancer in women.
• heavy drinking increases risks of mouth and
food pipe cancers by 5 to 10 times.
• 2000 cases of breast cancer in the UK every
year linked to alcohol.
• death rates from breast cancer are 30% higher
in women drinking just one daily drink
How does alcohol increase risk of
cancer?
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• Alcohol makes it easier for dangerous
chemicals to be absorbed in the mouth or
throat. This includes the chemicals in
tobacco that can cause cancer.
• Alcohol can increase the level of
hormones such as oestrogen in the body.
Unusually high levels of oestrogen could
cause breast cancer.
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Sun is good for you but
burning is not! !
Mole
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How do I know if I have a
Melanoma?
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Is the mole spreading?
Has the mole changed shape?
Has the mole started to itch?
Has the mole a number of different shades
of brown or black?
• Is the mole inflamed, weeping or
bleeding?
Melanoma
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SMART
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• Spend time in the shade between 11 am
and 3 pm.
• Make sure you never burn
• Aim to cover up with a tee shirt, hat and
sunglasses
• Remember to take extra care with children
• Then use factor 15+
Reapply sun cream regularly hourly if possible or go no
longer than 2 hours.
Learning Outcome
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• Know the procedures and the treatments
available for someone who has cancer
What to do if worried ?
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1) Go to the doctor – no further action needed
2) Sent to the hospital – no further action needed
3) Scan or tests – may show benign
4) Diagnosed - malignant
5) Treatment
Some treatments available Slide 17
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Radiotherapy
Chemotherapy
Hormonal
Surgery
Biological
Stem Cell
Supportive therapies
Complementary
Websites
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• www.click4tic.org.uk/understandit/type
sofcancer/worriedyoumighthavecancer
• www.click4tic.org.uk/understandit/tests
scans/typesoftestsscans
• www.click4tic.org.uk/understandit/treat
ments