Health Issues and Cancer
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- Created on: 13-05-18 18:24
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- Health Issues and Cancer
- Health is the state of physical and mental wellbeing
- Factors on health include
- Diet
- Stress
- Life situations
- Different diseases can interact
- Defects in the immune system means people are more likely to get infectious diseases
- Viruses living in cells can trigger some cancers
- Immune system reactions caused by a pathogen can trigger allergies
- Severe ill health can lead to depression
- Lifestyle factors
- Smoking has been proven to cause cardiovascular disease, lung diseased lung cancer
- Damages the walls of arteries and cells in the lining of the lungs
- Obesity
- Can cause type 2 diabetes
- It makes the body less sensitive or resistant to insulin
- Can cause type 2 diabetes
- Alcohol
- Can cause liver disease
- Can damage nerve cells in the brain causing it to lose volume
- Smoking and alcohol can cause health problems for the unborn baby.
- Carcinogens can be risk factors for cancers
- Smoking has been proven to cause cardiovascular disease, lung diseased lung cancer
- Non-communicable diseases can be costly
- Tens of millions people worldwide die from these diseases.
- They also cost a lot of money to the NHS
- In researching diseases and treatments
- They can cost families money as it could reduce the income.
- If less people work it can affect the countries economy.
- Cancer
- Cancer is due to the uncontrolled growth and divisions and cells
- Benign tumours
- Growth of cells usually contained within one area
- Don't invade other parts of the body.
- NOT CANCEROUS
- Malignant tumours
- CANCERS
- Invade neighbouring tissues and spread to other parts of the body.
- Forming secondary tumours
- Spread in the blood when cells break off the tumour
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