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What is the most common cancer in women over 25 |
Breast |
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What is the most common cancer in men over 50 |
Prostate |
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What is the prognosis of someone with cancer in the UK |
50% are predicted to survive up to 10 years |
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What are the causes of DNA damage that lead to cancer |
Chemical agents Radiation Infection Inflammation Chance |
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How does ionising radiation cause cancer |
Breaks in DNA strands |
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How do metabolic processes cause cancer |
Free radical oxygen species alter bases |
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How does UV B cause cancer |
cross linking of pyrimidine dimers between adjacent cytosine and tyrosine bases |
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What are the 3 basic things which occur when cancer begins |
Normal genes mutated into oncogenes Tumour supressor genes inactivated DNA repair genes inactivated |
