Cancer

Question 1

What is cancer?

Answer 1

It is when abnormal cells divide in an uncontrolled way

Question 2

What is a tumour?

Answer 2

Swelling or a growth in a part of the body, caused by an abnormal growth of tissue

Question 3

What is a benign tumour?

Answer 3

Aren’t cancerous and not usually life-threatening. They tend to grow slowly and don’t invade nearby tissue or spread to other parts of the body.

Question 4

What is a malignant tumour?

Answer 4

A malignant tumour is a fast-growing cancer that spreads to other areas of the body

Question 5

A type of cancer that is linked to a genetic cause is?

Answer 5

Breast cancer

Question 6

Lifestyle choices that increase the chance of developing cancer are and how do they cause it?

Answer 6

Smoking- which contributes to lung cancer by damaging the cells that line the lungs and with repeated use, it can cause the cells to act abnormally.

Alcohol- too much alcohol can cause a liver cell to not act properly and copy itself too much which can contribute to cancer cells.