Psychology 2036A/B Lecture 11: psych 2036- Week 11
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Cancer: opening story: can cell phones cause cancer, section i: defining cancer, section ii: risk factors for cancer, section iii: cancer treatments and preventions, section iv: medical and psychological treatments. Identify and define the four major types of cancer. Identify the benefits of and barriers to breast self-examination. cancer management: explain the benefits of social support as a psychological intervention for cancer management. It is important to clearly state that the association between cell phones and brain tumors to date is unclear: cell phone technology has changed considerably over the past 30 years. Instead, people with cancer can live one or two decades past the diagnosis, sometimes dying of other, wholly unrelated causes. Section 1 defining cancer: cancer represents a number of diseases. Tumors: two types of tumors are possible, a benign is a large mass of overgrown cells that are not life threatening.