BPS 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Isotopes Of Polonium, Polonium, Benzopyrene

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

Document Summary

Cancer is uncontrolled growth, or the proliferaion of cells. Hyper-proliferaive lesion; fast growing lesion and cysts are benign lesion: bening lesions can be fatal in developing countries, without proper access to health care. They can be fatal, not really in na. Hyper-proliferaive lesion; malignant: there are good ones and bad ones, the bad ones are the ones that are irregularly shaped. Cancer has contributed 22. 9% of deaths in north america in 2001. Cancer is known to be a disease of the aged. 75% of all cases of cancer occur ater the age of 55. Cancer is more frequent in males as they get older compared to women. The cancer treatments to handle cancer is very unpleasant, because younger children have more resilient bodies than compared to adults, it"s easier for them to make it through treatment. Most of the increase in cancer death rates for men prior to 1990 was atributable to lung cancer.