tech project

1. By: Leslie Zarco

2. Cancer
 A diseases where abnormal cells divide
without control and are able to invade
other tissues.
 Cancer isn’t just one specific disease ,
its over 100 different types of diseases

3. What is Leukemia? Types?
 Leukemia is a cancer of the blood cells ;
cancer starts in the tissue that forms blood
 There are different types of leukemia such as:
 Acute lymphocytic leukemia: a quick
progressing cancer of blood where many
immature lymphocytes aren’t fully complete
 Acute myelocytic
 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia:
 Chronic myelocytic leukemia :a slow
progressing cancer of blood in which too many
white cells are made in bone marrow

4. What occurs during Leukemia?
Effects?
 A transplant occurs
 The cause is unknown
 The effects that occur during leukemia
are:
 Infections, anemia, easy bruising, weight
loss, night sweats, and unexplainable
fevers ,headaches, vomiting ,confusion
, loss of muscle control
, weak,swelling,and pain in bones

6. Bone marrow
 Doctors must get bone marrow from the
patient
 Bone marrow: soft material in the center of
bones
 Makes abnormal white blood cells; abnormal
cells are leukemia cells
 Leukemia blood cells don’t die when they
should, which is bad because then the body
doesn’t need them
 The extra cells may form a tumor
 The cells crowd out the red cells , white cells,
and the platelets

7. Physical exams
 Spinal tap
 Cytogenetics
 Chest x-ray
 Blood tests
 Biopsy
 Bone marrow aspiration
 Bone marrow biopsy

8. Risk factors
 Radiation
 Acute myelocytic
 Chronic myelocytic
 Acute lymphocytic
 Atomic bomb explosions
 Radiation therapy may increase risk
 Diagnostic x-rays

10. Causes
 Smoking
 Benzene
 Chemotherapy
 Down syndrome
 Myelocytic syndrome
 Certain blood disorders
 Human T-cell leukemia virus type
 Family history

11. Who is Susceptible?
Both men, women, and children are all
susceptible to various types of cancers;
age doesn’t matter
It’s said that patients with Parkinson's
disease are more susceptible to cancer
tumors because of research as well as
deaths of 2.2 million people since 1904
comparing people with Parkinson's
disease and those with different cancer
types

12. Average diagnosed people
 Throughout the world many people have
been diagnosed with different cancer
types from 2003-2007
 In the year 2011, there have been over
1,596,670 people with cancer
 Also the death rates are getting
higher, the number was over 571,950
people

13. Diagnostics
 Diagnostics are thorough; history and
physical examination along with diagnostic
testing
 When the condition of a person has
changed the testing is needed to be rerun
or repeated
 Things necessary/tests for the diagnostics:
 Imaging, lab tests, tumor markers, tumor
biopsy, endoscopic
examination, surgery, and genetic testing
 By the way, testing isn’t 100% correct

15. Citings Cancer.gov./dictionary
Cancer. Stanford. edu/
information/ glossary
Caring4cancer.co
om/go/cancer/di
agnosis/test-to-
diagnostic
Medicalnewstoda
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Sciencemag.org/content
Todaymednews.org/article/cat
egory/diseases

16. My Standards:
 Unit 1: Cell Biology Unit 10: Immune System
10a- students know the
 1c- students know role of the skin in
how prokaryotic cells providing nonspecific
(including those from diseases against
plants and animals), infection
and viruses differ in
complexity and 10b- students know the
general structure role of antibodies in the
body’s response to
infection