What is it? Treatment options

Prevention

Disease Cells grow and divide uncontrollably No way to stop Damage to body around them

Damage to a portion of the DNA Mutation Mutations disrupt the normal cell

cycle causing the uncontrollably dividing

One abnormal cell reproduces into two abnormal daughter cells

Abnormal cells divide Form a mass

Cells break off tumor and enter bloodstream

Blood can transport cells all of the body

Cells continue to divide

Three common ways• Surgery• Radiation• Chemotherapy and other drugs

Before cancer spreads Remove tumor

When cancer has spread High energy waves Fast growing cells more likely to be

destroyed

Use of drugs to treat a disease Not specifically a cancer treatment

drug Drugs kill cancer cells or slow their

growth How the cell cycle is controlled holds

the key to stop cancer cells from multiplying

Diet• Fatty foods

Habits• smoking

Sunlight and skin• Ultraviolet light

Cancer Cells vs. Healthy Cells