Cancer

Cancer

Mini

Lesson

By Mrs. Williams

Multiple Choice

What is Cancer?

• uncontrolled cell division

• when a cell touches another cell and stops growing

• mutations in the DNA of cells

• a contagious disease

Write "uncontrolled cell division" on your note page next to the arrow

Cancer is Mitosis gone wild

Multiple Choice

Cancer Trivia: More than half of cancers are preventable.

• True

• False

Carcinogen

On your Notes Write

Something that can cause cancer (can be cigarettes, UV rays from the sun, viruses, some chemicals)

Multiple Choice

Which is not an example of a carcinogen?

• smoking cigarettes

• chewing tobacco

• UV rays from the sun

• Exercise

Multiple Choice

Cancer Trivia: There are more skin cancer cases due to indoor tanning beds than lung cancer cases due to smoking.

• True

• False

Genetics

On your notes write...

Genetics-some people are more likely to get cancer because of their family history.

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Multiple Choice

These cancers are hereditary: breast, colon, prostrate, ovarian, uterine, melanoma, and pancreatic. What does hereditary mean?

• The cancer causes your hair to fall out

• the cancer can be passed down in your DNA to you from your parents

• they are more common cancers

• these cancers all are preventable

What is a tumor?

Cancer cells dividing out of control and invading surrounding tissue

Some text here about the topic of discussion

On your notes

Metastasis

When cancer moves to another part of the body

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Multiple Choice

How does cancer spread to other parts of the body?

• through blood vessels

• by growing into other tissues

• through the digestive system

• through the muscular and skeletal systems

Treatments for Cancer

Write this on your notes

1. Surgery-removal of a tumor

2. Chemotherapy-drugs that kill

   rapidly growing cells

3. Radiation-high powered x-rays

Multiple Choice

Which is not a treatment for cancer?

• Surgery

• Chemotherapy

• Diet and Exercise

• Radiation

Multiple Choice

Cancer Trivia: The word for cancer comes from a latin word meaning ____________.

• death

• crab

• division

• cake

​This is what your notes should look like

What to do now:

​Take a screen shot of your Quizizz Score

After you have taken a screen shot of your score:

1. make sure your notes are completed

2. go back to canvas (to Page 5 Notes: Cancer) and upload your screenshot of your quizizz score and a picture of your finished note page

3. Get your Class Notebook and tape or place (6th grade) your cancer notes on page 5

You can now start on the Cancer WebQuest Assignment on Can​vas