CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Transfer Rna, Testicular Cancer, Piperine

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: David Harpp

Document Summary

Stems from cancer the crab zodiac (their legs stem out just like cancer in your body) Five year survival rates have risen from 50% to 66% Several vaccine strategies are now being researched: peptide based, cell based, the fda has approved a vaccine called provenge for prostate cancer and it has lengthened life by several months. Diet and cancer: projected numbers for 2012 deaths: most common cancers: In 2006, cancer deaths in the u. s. fall for the first time in 70 years. Explanation: smoking on decline; cancer spotted earlier and treated better. Cases and deaths of cancer in usa, india and japan are very different. Thus food intake is very different: prostate: 1043 cases; 179 deaths in usa and much less in india. Increase in lung cancer particularly for women was so high from 1950-1980 that it made the total cancer deaths increase: women smoking a lot starting 1960. When they got older, lung cancer incidents increased.