What is Cancer and How to Survive

What is a tumor (benign or malignant): https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-does-malignant-and-benign-mean-514240 

What Cancer is: Click Here for 1 minute Cancer introduction video

How Cancer cells spread (2 minutes): Click Here for Metastasis video

Substances and environmental factors can influence the onset or can cause cancer: Click here for Carcinogen information

Substances that can help with reducing Cancer cells in the body: Link to Cancer Fighting Foods article

And an article about Phytochemicals that you have seen before: Click Here for an article on Phytochemicals

Common types of Cancer and Common causes Cancer deaths

For this section, every will need to know what the most common (new cases) types of cancers are (for males and females).  And you will need to figure out what are the most common causes of death from cancer for both males and females.

To help you determine this, please study this chart:

Surviving Cancer

If a person is ever diagnosed with a cancer, the doctor will sit them down and describe what is called the "5-year survival rate".  What that rate is can be considered a judge of how severe the cancer is.  On this chart below is a list of many of the more common types of cancer and four columns of survival rates.  These rates give the person an idea of how likely it is that they will be able to survive the next 5 years even though they are diagnosed with a cancer.  Some cancers have great survival rates.  If the rate is 99% that means, 99 out of 100 people who have that cancer should be able to survive at least the next 5 years.  If the rate is 13%, that means only 13 out of 100 people survive that cancer (obviously not so good).

The four columns include the "all stages" survival rate for the cancer.  The the "local" column represent those cancers that have not moved to another tissue.  The "regional" column represents the cancers that start in one tissue and move to a neighboring tissue.  And the "distant" column represents the survival rates for cancers that have moved from one part of the body to a part farther away, also called metastasis.

Five Year Survival Rates