This interactive activity features multiple stations, each focusing on a different aspect of cancer, including types, causes, prevention, treatment options, and current research. Participants will rotate through stations, gathering information, completing hands-on tasks, and discussing key concepts...
What is cancer?
Cells grow out of control and crowd out normal cells. It amkes it harder
for the body to properly function.
1. How are all cancers the same? How can they be different? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmFEoCFDi-w
All the cells in the body have a job to do, they die if they’re tired, and in
cance rthey keep growing to make new cells. The difference is that some 1. How does chemotherapy affect normal cells and cancer
caners can grow father than others and respond to treatment
differently. cells?
No matter the cell, the drug will hit them all. It
1. What is a tumor? disrupts. So everytime a cell divides, it most likely will
A lump of cancer or growth.
be killed off.
1. What is the difference between stage 1 or 2 cancer and stage 3 or 4
cancer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcigJn8UJNQ
2. For stage one and two is meaning the cancer has not spread much, while
three and four means the cancer has spread more and is more dangerous 2. Summarize in your own words the 3 ways cancer can spread.
than the other two stages. Cancer can be spread in transoelomic, lympthatic, and
After answering these questions, scroll to the bottom of the page. Read through
hematogenous. Transeolomic is the cancer cell going through
“Cancer words you may hear” so that you will be familiar with these terms as the cavities in our body to spread, hematogenous is through
you go through the stations. the blood stream, and lympthatic is through lympth nodes/
lympathic system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeUANxFVXKc
2. Which way does ovarian cancer tend to spread?
Through the peritoneum, where the ovary is connected to
5. What is different about normal cell division and cancer cell division based
on this video clip? the liver.
The difference is that the cancer cell division clumps up to make one 2. Where does prostate cancer tend to metastasize to?
giant lump instead of mutating and seperating cells into serpate spaces The bone is where it metastizes to.
like normal cell division.
2. Where does colon cancer tend to metastasize to?
The liver is wher colon cancer tends to metasie to.
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