What is Cancer Presentation

1. Cancer Foundation Programme What is Cancer?

2. What does the word cancer mean to you?

3. A terrifying illness.

6. Fear .

9. A brief history of Time!

22. Cancers develop because of a complicated interaction between our genes , the environment and chance .

23. Normal body cells grow, divide and die in an orderly fashion.

24. Cancer cells are different because they do not die, they just continue to grow and divide in a disorderly fashion.

25. Cancer can occur at any age, but 67% of cancer deaths occur in people older than 65 years

27. The image of the normal colon tissue, at left, shows well-formed oval-shaped glands, evenly lined with a single, organized layer of cells indicated by arrows. The image of the cancerous colon tissue, in contrast, shows highly disorganized cancer cells stacked upon each other in an apparently random fashion. What does cancer look like?

28. A brief history of Time!

30. Group Work

41. Group Work

43. Source CRUK Website 2006 2003 Top ten cancers incidence 1 Breast 2 Lung 3 Large Bowel 4 Prostate 5 Bladder 6 Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma 7 Stomach 8 Melanoma 9 Oesophagus 10 Pancreas

45. Others

47. Deaths (2005) Source CRUK Website 2006 Top ten cancers deaths 1 Lung 2 Bowel 3 Breast 4 Prostate 5 Oesophagus 6 Pancreas 7 Stomach 8 Bladder 9 Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma 10 Ovary

49. Deaths (2005) Incidence (2003) Source CRUK Website 2006 Cancer Top Ten 1 Lung 2 Bowel 3 Breast 4 Prostate 5 Oesophagus 6 Pancreas 7 Stomach 8 Bladder 9 Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma 10 Ovary 1 Breast 2 Lung 3 Large Bowel 4 Prostate 5 Bladder 6 Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma 7 Stomach 8 Melanoma 9 Oesophagus 10 Pancreas

51. Survival statistics for cancer are usually written as “five year survival” or “10 year survival” .

52. What this means is that X% of patients were still alive at 5/10 years after they were diagnosed .

53. Often disease free survival figures are used. This means everyone with that type of cancer who is alive and well 5 years after diagnosis.

55. () = Pre-NHS Cancer Plan Chances of survival - percentage of people alive at 5 years England and Wales Europe United States Lung 6 (6) 11 15 Colon 50 (39) 62 64 Breast 77 (68) 83 88 Prostate 65 (42) 88 100

56. Is this True

64. Compared to France, Germany and the USA, the UK has the highest death rate per 100,000 of the population (236, 206, 194 and 275 respectively)

68. Perspective

69. Major causes of Death in the UK