Cancer Jeremy Doowage Science Honours Presentation

What is cancer?  broad group of diseases  unregulated cell growth  forming tumours, and invading parts of the body.  Lead to death  Specific symptoms

Cancer stats  124,910 diagnosis this year  1/ 2 men  1/ 3 women  43,700 people have died from cancer in (3/10)  $3.8 billion WHILST $378 million

Types of cancer

What happens?

Early detection?  detected early stage treatment more effective  breast cancer, cervical cancer, bowel cancer, prostate cancer.  know your own body. notice any changes, see your doctor.

Why is prevention so important  1/9 cancers, 1/5 cancer deaths, are due to smoking  3% of cancers are related to alcohol  direct result of dietary influences, from infectious agents or exposure to radiation  some cancers result from inherited genes  cancer is NOT caused by injury or stress.

Breast Cancer  13,700 people  1/ 8 women  1/ 724 men  Mammographic/ two years  Pain is rare  Age, history, female hormones,obesity,excess alcohol  Treatment extent of cancer

Skin Cancer  %  melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma  2/3 diagnosis  diagnoses increased 150%  More common In men  2000 died  non-healing sores  red, pale,pearly lumps  new spots/changing in colour,/thickness /shape

Prostate Cancer  19,400  1 in 5 men.  2,938  13% in Australian men.  PSA tests  Symptoms in Urine  No Prevention  Treatment= Cancer

Old Methods  mammograms  X-ray computed tomography  HPV  PSA tests  Gene testing

The problems with these

Microwave tomography imaging KNOWN AS MTI

How MTI breaks down the images

Who Made this? Chung Nam University in Daejeon, South Korea

Benefits

Costs Cost MRI$2.5milliom-$4million Mammography$300,000 MTI$100,000

Treatment  Surgery  Chemotherapy  Hormone therapy  Radiotherapy  a curative treatment, often in association with other approaches  to relieve pain and discomfort associated with incurable disease.

What should we do?  DONATE