Cancer & Cancer clips

how cancer grows and spreads

Understanding Cancer.flv

Cancer Notes

• Cancer cells--Cells of your body that eat and divide out of control without performing the necessary function for your body

• Cancer Death--Cancer cells take over an organ and cause it to dysfunction and you die.

Tumor types:

• Malignant – spread to other places in your body. Grow into other organs and spread.

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• Benign- The ceils of the tumor do not spread of invade other tissues.

 

Types of cancers.• Carcinomas – Most common type of cancer. They arise

from cells that cover external and internal body surfaces. EX. Lung / Breast/ Colon/ Skin

•  • Sarcomas –Cells that arise from the supporting tissues.

Bone/ Cartilage/ fat/ Connective/ Muscle•  • Lymphomas - Cells that arise from the lymph nodes and

tissues of the immune system.•  • Leukemia’s – Cancers of the bone marrow and blood

tissues.

Cancer Notes

• Metastasis – Penetrates lymphatic and blood systems and travels through the body.

• Invasion – migrates and penetrates into neighboring tissues.

Regulation genes

• Proto-oncogene's

• Tumor suppressor genes

cancer

• Cancer is

• How cancer develops

• Immune response to cancer

Cancer growth and spreading

Cancer recruits blood vessels

• Fighting cancer

• Detecting cancer with gold

Fighting cancer

• Nanomagnetic

• Tumor destruction

• Nanotechnology for targeted cells

• DV Fighting cancer

• New cancer treatment

P53 gene

Cancer treatments

• Chemo

• Cancer treatment

Polyp removal

• colonoscopy_polyp-lg[1].mov

Cancer

• Colon cancer