Cancer Awareness Lesson 4 Slide 1 Cancer – Lifestyle, Causes and Treatment

Learning Objectives Slide 2 How to keep healthy and what influences health. Know and understand how lifestyle can affect health Know how to reduce the risks

Seget Slide 3 A new drug in an easy to take tablet form 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, 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 Slide 5 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. About half of all regular cigarette smokers will eventually be killed by their habit. 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. 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. 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 Slide 7 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 Slide 8 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 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? Slide 9 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.

Slide 10 Sun is good for you but burning is not! !

Mole Slide 11

How do I know if I have a Melanoma? Slide 12 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 Slide 13

SMART Slide 14 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 Slide 15 Know the procedures and the treatments available for someone who has cancer

What to do if worried ? Slide 16 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 Radiotherapy Chemotherapy Hormonal Surgery Biological Stem Cell Supportive therapies Complementary

Websites Slide 18 sofcancer/worriedyoumighthavecancerwww.click4tic.org.uk/understandit/type sofcancer/worriedyoumighthavecancer scans/typesoftestsscanswww.click4tic.org.uk/understandit/tests scans/typesoftestsscans mentswww.click4tic.org.uk/understandit/treat ments