Thursday, December 15, 2011

Cancer Facts Symptoms & Interesting Trivia

The odds are 1 out of 2 (50%) that if you're a smoker who has been diagnosed with cancer, you will continue to smoke

Steve Jobs was one of the first twenty people in the world to have all of the genes of his cancer tumor as well as of his normal DNA sequenced

he first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer

The first cause of cancer was identified by British surgeon Percivall Pott, who discovered in 1775 that cancer of the scrotum was a common disease among chimney sweeps

Ulysses S. Grant finished his memoirs in 1885, a few weeks before his death from throat cancer. The book earned over $450,000 for his family after his death


Due to hunting, Tasmanian devils neared extinction at the beginning of the 20th century. Tasmanian wolves (also called tigers) became extinct in 1936. Today Tasmanian devils are endangered by a cancer called Devil Facial Tumor Disease

Every 30 seconds someone in the world dies of lung cancer

Breast cancer survivors may reduce their risk of recurrence by eating soy foods

Male firefighters who were exposed to toxic dust and smoke from the 9/11 attacks on World Trade Center have a 19 percent higher risk of getting cancer of all kinds than colleagues who were not exposed

The annual estimate for men who will be diagnosed with breast cancer is 2,140, and the number of men who will die from it is 450

25 percent of women with breast cancer are younger than 50

Up to 98 percent of women survive at least five years when their cancer is caught early, and 85 to 90 percent survive at least 10 years

Left-handed women are more than twice as likely as right-handers to suffer from breast cancer before reaching menopause

Ginger kills ovarian cancer cells

Healthy cells have a built-in process which means they commit suicide if something is wrong, a process which fails in cancer cells

Breast cancer patients are significantly more likely to have a pet dog instead of a cat

80% of all breast cancer patients have had "extensive contact" with dogs before their diagnosis

Chances of a women getting breast cancer are increased by excesseive use of alcohol

Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer

Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer

Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer