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| Skin Cancer | An environmental cancer caused by ultraviolet rays from the sun. It is commonly found in people with light skin. |
| Lung Cancer | An environmental cancer that is caused by dust, smoke, and pollution |
| Signs of skin cancer | Changes in warts, moles, or a sore that doesn't heal |
| Signs of lung cancer | A cough that doesn't go away and coughing up blood |
| Leukemia | A form of cancer characterized by an excess of abnormal white blood cells. |
| Signs of Leukemia | Being tired, weak, and having an infection that doesn't heal. |
| Cancer treatments | * surgery to remove cancer cells * radiation treatment to destroy certain cancer cells * Chemotherapy therapy |
| Ways to prevent cancer | *Avoid smoking * Use sunscreen * Avoid fatty foods |
| Arthritis | A group of diseases that cause pain and swelling of the joints |
| Signs of Arthritis | Pain, stiffness of joints, redness, and swelling |
| Treatments for arthritis | *medicine * exercises * surgery |
| Epilepsy | A disease in which the brain cells send abnormal electrical signals for brief periods of time |
| Signs of epilepsy | loss of consciousness, falling having a seizure, and your body may become stiff |
| Treatment for epilepsy | Medication to help control the seizures |
| Diabetes | A group of noncommunicable diseases in which the body cells do not absorb glucose from the blood |
| Type I Diabetes | The body does not make enough or any insulin to be used |
| Type II Diabetes | The correct amount of insulin is made but the body can not use it properly |
| Treatments for Type 1 Diabetes | Must test blood daily and give infections of insulin |
| Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes | Monitor their diet, then see doctor and possible injections of insulin |
| What does CDC stand for? | Center for Disease Control |
| What is the chief job of the CDC? | To help protect the health of the people in the United States. They try to figure out what caused certain diseases and how they spread. |
