BIOL 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Helicase, 18 Months, Blood Vessel
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Cancer kills more ppl than anything else right now in canada. About 40% of us will get cancer and it might not kill us right away (25% of canadians will die of it) If you make it past age 14 without cancer, you"ll most likely be fine up until you reach late 40s/50s. It will get even bigger as time goes on because people are living longer: when kids get cancer mostly brain and leukemias. Lung cancer a major killer (with high incidence obviously) Big 5: lung 30% of ppl with lung cancer aren"t even smokers, colorectal, breast, prostate, pancreas. Besides leukemias being prevalent, epithelial cancers are really what kill people statistically. Almost every cell type that exist, there are tumours that exist with it; with possible exception: cardiac tissue. In america, a person a minute dies of cancer 525 600 minutes per year: the number of deaths is 37% that of those diagnosed.
