Concepts/Questions:

1. What characterizes "cancer" in general. Distinguish between more and less harmful neoplastic cancer cells.
2. Name and describe the 4 main types of malignant cancers.
3. What are the leading sites for cancer for men and women? Summarize the general trends in cancer mortality over the past century. What are the explanations for some of these changes?
4. Name and discuss the six behavioral areas of risk factors research for cancer (smoking, diet, alcohol, physical inactivity, ultraviolet light exposure & sexual behavior).
5. What are a number of risk factors that tend to be outside our immediate control? What are a couple of environment conditions popularly thought to be risk factors for cancer that have not been proven to be such?
6. Name the inherent risk factors for cancer and cite a piece of supportive research for that factor.
7. What psychological and psychosocial factors HAVE and HAVE NOT been related to incidence or progression of cancer?