BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Malignancy, Stomach Cancer, Angiogenesis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Tobacco use is a major preventable cause of death, particularly from lung cancer. The year 2004 marks the anniversary of the release of the first surgeon general"s report on. Tobacco and health, which initiated a decline of per capita cigarette smoking in the. As a result of the cigarette smoking epidemic, lung cancer death rates showed a steady increase through 1990, then began to decline. However, similar to trends in nutrition, there has been little change in leisure-time physical activity during the 1990s. Almost one-third of adults do not engage in any leisure- time physical activity. Even more striking is that almost half of adults with less than a high school education do not get any leisure-time physical activity. It should be noted that leisure-time physical activity, as presented in this graph, does not reflect job-related physical activity for the currently employed population: while there has been little change in leisure-time physical activity since the early.