BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Polonium, Henrietta Lacks, Stomach Cancer

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

Document Summary

Its a part of your body that grow uncontrollably, if not treated it can be a life threatening situation. Benign: cysts, warts (not strictly cancer, but classi ed as a hyper-proliferative lesion) Little girl has lost her ability to eat because of the lack of medical care. This tends to have irregular kind of growth; random shapes. Depending where you test, cancer is either the rst or second cause of death. Happens when you get old typically; unusual when you"re young. Only happens usually when you"re 50-55 and almost non-existent during younger age. Men get cancer more often than women because of their lifestyles. It does happen often/reguar, but there are billions of people on this earth and its generally very very rare. Cancer treatments are dangerous, you can die from a treatment. Heart disease has had some great breakthroughs but the death rate for cancer between 1950 and 2001, it hasn"t made really any progress.