FAMILY LIFE

CHOOSING NOT TO HAVE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE CHOOSING NOT TO HAVE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE ABSTINENCE

THE ONLY 100% FULL PROOF WAY OF NOT BECOMING PREGNANT OR CATCHING A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE!!!!!!!!!!

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

STANDS FOR: ACQUIRE IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME AIDS

A FATAL COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CAUSED BY THE HIV VIRUS

STD’S THAT ARE CAUSED BY A BACTERIA CAN BE TREATED WITH AN ANTIBIOTIC (A MEDICINE WHICH KILLS BACTERIA) BUT NOT VIRUSES BACTERIAL STD’S

CHLAMYDIA GONORRHEA SYPHILIS TRICHOMONIASIS 4 BACTERIAL STD’S

THE LOWER PART OF THE UTERUS THAT OPENS TO THE VAGINA CERVIX

A SORE THAT APPEARS AT THE PLACE WHERE INFECTION WITH SYPHILIS TAKES PLACE CHANCRE

A HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE THAT IS CAUSED BY A BACTERIA CHANCROID

1. APPEARS AS A PAINFUL SORE ON THE GENITALS 2. IS TREATABLE

THE FASTEST SPREADING STD IN THE U.S. CHLAMYDIA IS A BACTERIAL INFECTION THAT ATTACKS THE MALE AND FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS CHLAMYDIA

COMMON CAUSE OF STERILITY “SILENT EPIDEMIC” BECAUSE MOST MEN AND WOMEN WITH THIS DISEASE HAVE NO SYMPTOMS CHLAMYDIA

TINY BLOOD SUCKING LICE THAT LIVE AND LAY EGGS IN PUBIC HAIR CRABS CAUSE INTENSE ITCHING CRABS (PUBIC LICE)

USUALLY TRANSMITTED BY SKIN-TO-SKIN CONTACT WITH INFECTED PERSON CAN BE TREATED AND CURED CRABS

A FETUS THAT DEVELOPS IN A FALLOPIAN TUBE RATHER THAN THE UTERUS USUALLY HAPPENS AS A RESULT OF A PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE (PID) ECTOPIC PREGNANCY

SWELLING OF THE BRAIN THAT MAY BE CAUSED BY GERMS OR VIRUSES THAT CAUSE HERPES, SYPHILIS, OR GONORRHEA ENCEPHALITIS

GONORRHEA IS A STD IT IS A BACTERIAL INFECTION OF THE PENIS, VAGINA, ANUS, OR THROAT GONORRHEA

GONORRHEA CAN BE TREATED WITH MEDICATION GONORRHEA IS THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF FEMALE INFERTILITY 40% OF ALL CASES ARE IN TEENS GONORRHEA

DOCTORS WHO SPECIALIZE IN TREATING DISEASES OF THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS AND BREAST GYNECOLOGIST

A STD CAUSED BY A VIRUS IT USUALLY MAKES A PERSON’S LIVER SWOLLEN IF NOT TREATED CAN CAUSE CANCER OR SEVERELY DAMAGE THE LIVER HEPATITIS B

THERE IS NO CURE FOR HEPATITIS B HOWEVER, THERE IS A VACINE THAT CAN PREVENT A PERSON FROM GETTING HEPATITIS B HEPATITIS B

HERPES SIMPLEX 2

A STD THAT CAUSES BLISTER-LIKE SORES IN THE GENITAL AREA 2 TO 20 DAYS AFTER CONTACT AFTER A FEW DAYS THEY BURST LEAVING ULCERS

THERE IS NO CURE FOR HERPES!!!! HERPES SIMPLEX TYPE 2

HIV/AIDS

HIV-HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AIDS-ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME HIV IS THE VIRUS THAT USUALLY LEADS TO AIDS

HIV IS A STD VIRUS THAT ONCE IT IS INSIDE A PERSON’S BODY, IT BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN OR WEAKEN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

THERE IS NO CURE FOR THE HIV VIRUS!! HIV USUALLY HAS NO OBVIOUS SYMPTOMS HIV/AIDS

HPV-HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS HPV IS A VIRUS THAT EFFECTS THE SKIN IN THE GENITAL AREA, AS WELL AS THE FEMALE CERVIX HPV

SYMPTOMS CAN BE IN THE FORM OF WART-LIKE GROWTHS, OR ABNORMAL CELL GROWTHS ON THE VULVA, VAGINA, ANUS, CERVIX, PENIS OR SCROTUM HPV

ONE-HALF OF SEXUALLY ACTIVE WOMEN ARE INFECTED WITH HPV!! HPV IS STRONGLY LINKED TO CERVICAL CANCER

THERE IS NO CURE FOR HPV !!! HPV

NGU-NON GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS NGU IS A TREATABLE BACTERIAL INFECTION OF THE URETHRA ( THE TUBE WITHIN THE PENIS IN MALES) AND THE CERVIX IN FEMALES NGU

THE FEMALE SEX GLANDS SITUATED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE UTERUS. OVARIES HOUSE THE OVA AND PRODUCE THE FEMALE SEX HORMONES ESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE OVARIES

THE RELEASE OF THE EGG FROM AN OVARY THAT THEN MOVES DOWN ONE OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES TOWARD THE UTERUS. OVULATION

PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE

A PAINFUL INFECTION OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES, OVARIES, AND OR UTERUS, AS A RESULT OF UNTREATED GONORRHEA OR CHLAMYDIA.

PID CAN SCAR A WOMAN’S REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. IT CAN CAUSE LIFELONG PAIN IT CAN ALSO MAKE A WOMAN INFERTILE

AN INFECTION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS, BLOOD OR SKIN CAUSED BY VIRUSES, BACTERIA, PARASITES AND BUGS THAT IS PASSED FROM ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER THROUGH SEXUAL CONTACT. STD

THE ONLY FULL PROOF WAY TO NOT GET AN STD IS TO NOT HAVE SEX OR ENGAGE IN HIGH- RISK BEHAVIOR!!!! STD

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES DO NOT GO AWAY ON THEIR OWN!!!!!!

A TREATABLE BACTERIAL INFECTION THAT CAN SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE BODY AND AFFECT THE HEART, BRAIN AND NERVES. SYPHILIS

SYPHILIS IS A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE THAT PROGRESSES IN THREE STAGES, WITH THE EARLIEST SYMPTOMS APPEARING 10 DAYS-3 WEEKS AFTER SEX WITH AN INFECTED PARTNER

A PAINFUL SORE (CHANCRE) MAY APPEAR ON THE GENITALS OR IN THE VAGINA SYPHILIS STAGE 1

A RED SKIN RASH ON THE CHEST BACK, ARMS, LEGS AND FEET HIGH FEVER SORE THROAT MUSCULAR FATIGUE OVERALL DISCOMFORT SYPHILIS STAGE 2

IF SYPHILIS IS LEFT UNTREATED: INSANITY HEART FAILURE PARALYSIS BLINDNESS DEATH SYPHILIS-STAGE 3

THE MALE SEX GLANDS THAT PRODUCE SPERM; TESTICLES TESTES

AN STD WHICH CAN CAUSE VAGINITIS IN WOMEN AND URETHRITIS IN MEN CAN BE TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS TRICHOMONIASIS

A DOCTOR WHO SPECIALIZES IN THE PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF THE URINARY AND GENITAL FUNCTIONS OF THE BODY UROLOGIST

A VERY STRONG, ELASTIC MUSCLE ABOUT THE SIZE OF A FIST USED TO HOLD AND NOURISH THE EMBRYO (CONCEPTION-8 WEEKS) AND THE FETUS (8 WEEKS- BIRTH) UTERUS

INFLAMMATION OF THE URETHRA WHICH IS THE TUBE THAT URINE GOES THROUGH TO LEAVE THE BODY URETHRITIS

INFLAMMATION OF THE VAGINA WHICH IS THE MUSCULAR CANAL BETWEEN THE UTERUS AND THE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY VAGINITIS

VIRAL STD’S ARE NOT CURABLE!!!!!

GENITAL HERPES HPV HEPATITIS B HIV-THE CAUSE OF AIDS VIRAL STD’S

CONTRACEPTIVES

MOST FORMS OF CONTRACEPTIVES DO NOT PROTECT YOU AGAINST SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

THE ONLY 100% FULL PROOF WAY OF NOT BECOMING PREGNANT OR CATCHING A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE ABSTINENCE

CHOOSING NOT TO HAVE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE ABSTINENCE

BIRTH CONTROL PILLS

AN ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE TAKEN BY WOMEN EACH DAY TO PREVENT PREGNANCY BIRTH CONTROL PILLS DO NOT PROTECT AGAINST STD’S FAILURE RATE-5%

CERVICAL CAP

A SMALL THIMBLE-SHAPED CAP USUALLY MADE OF RUBBER OR PLASTIC THAT FIT OVER THE CERVIX A DOCTOR MUST FIT YOU FOR THE CAP FAILURE RATE-13%

CERVICAL CAP ALONG WITH A SPERMICIDE PROVIDE SOME PROTECTION AGAINST STD’S CERVICAL CAP

A THIN SHEATH OF LATEX THAT IS PLACED ON THE ERECT PENIS TO CATCH SEMEN AND TO PREVENT STD’S AND PREGNANCY CONDOM

CONDOMS MADE OF LATEX WORN CONSISTENTLY AND CORRECTLY ARE THE MOST EFFECTIVE TYPE OF CONDOM FAILURE RATE-12% CONDOM

DEPO PROVERA

A BIRTH CONTROL SHOT THAT IS TAKEN EVERY 3 MONTHS. IT CONTAINS A HORMONE THAT PREVENTS OVULATION IT IS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN THE PILL FAILURE RATE-.4%

DEPO PROVERA DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES!! DEPO PROVERA

DIAPHRAGM

A SOFT RUBBER CUP WITH A FLEXIBLE RIM THAT IS WORN INSIDE THE VAGINA DIAPHRAGMS USED ALONG WITH A SPERMICIDE WILL PROTECT SOME AGAINST STD’S FAILURE RATE-19%

INTRAUTERINE DEVICE (IUD)

AN IUD DOES NOT ALLOW AN EGG TO ATTACH ITSELF TO THE WALL OF THE UTERUS IF THE EGG DOES NOT ATTACH ITSELF TO THE UTERUS IT CAN NOT GROW FAILURE RATE: 1%-3%

THE MOST COMMON IUD IS THE T-SHAPED PIECE OF PLASTIC THAT SITS INSIDE THE UTERUS COVERED WITH A COPPER WIRE A DOCTOR MUST INSERT THE IUD IN THE WOMAN’S BODY

A INTRAUTERINE DEVICE-IUD DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES!!

MORNING AFTER PILL

EMERGENCY BIRTH CONTROL PILL THAT PREVENTS THE EGG AND SPERM FROM MEETING OR PREVENTS THE EGG FROM ATTACHING TO THE WALL OF THE UTERUS

THE MORNING AFTER PILL MUST BE TAKEN WITHIN 72 HOURS OF UNPROTECTED INTERCOURSE FAILURE RATE-25%

THE MORNING AFTER PILL DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES!!

NORPLANT

NORPLANT ACTS LIKE A TIME RELEASED BIRTH CONTROL PILL ABOUT THE SIZE OF 6 MATCH STICKS AND SURGICALLY PLACED UNDER THE SKIN OF A WOMAN’S UPPER ARM

NORPLANT CONTAINS A HORMONE TO PREVENT PREGNANCY THIS HORMONE THICKENS THE CERVIX MUCUS TO PREVENT SPERM FROM ENTERING THE CERVIX

IT IS EFFECTIVE UP TO 5 YEARS MAY CAUSE BLEEDING AND SKIN DISCOLORATION IT IS DIFFICULT TO REMOVE COST $550-$750 FAILURE RATE-.09%

THE BEST SPERMICIDE TO USE IN ADDITION TO A LATEX CONDOM FOR THE PREVENTION OF STD’S FAILURE RATE-18% NONOXYNOL-9

A CHEMICAL THAT CAN KILL SPERM BEFORE THEY CAN FERTILIZE AN EGG FAILURE RATE-18% SPERMICIDE

SPERMICIDES OFFER SOME PROTECTION FROM STD’S CONDOM’S USED WITH SPERMICIDES PROVIDE A BETTER PROTECTION AGAINST SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES SPERMICIDE

MOST FORMS OF BIRTH CONTROL DO NOT PROTECT YOU FROM STD’S!!!

STERILIZATION

A SURGICAL PROCEDURE THAT MAKES A MALE OR FEMALE INCAPABLE OF REPRODUCING MALE STERILIZATION- VASECTOMY (VAS DEFERENS) FEMALE STERILIZATION- TUBAL LIGATION (FALLOPIAN TUBES)

VASECTOMY-THE TUBES ( VAS DEFERENS) THAT CARRY SPERM FROM THE TESTICLES TO THE URETHRA ARE CUT TO PREVENT SPERM FROM ENTERING THE SEMEN, WHICH IS EJACULATED DURING INTERCOURSE MALE STERILIZATION

TUBAL LIGATION-THE FALLOPIAN TUBES ARE EITHER CUT OR CLAMPED TO PREVENT AN EGG RELEASED BY AN OVARY FROM MOVING DOWN THE FALLOPIAN TUBE INTO THE UTERUS FEMALE STERILIZATION

VASECTOMY & TUBAL LIGATION DO NOT PROTECT AGAINST SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES!!!

WHEN A MALE REMOVES HIS PENIS FROM THE VAGINA BEFORE EJACULATION (RELEASING SEMEN) KNOWN AS PULLING OUT FAILURE RATE-23% WITHDRAWAL

WITHDRAWAL DOES NOT PROTECT YOU FROM SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES!!!! WITHDRAWAL

PRE-CUM PRE-EJACULATION

A FEW DROPS OF SEMEN THAT LEAKS OUT OF THE PENIS JUST BEFORE HE EJACULATES MOST MEN DO NOT KNOW WHEN THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT FEEL IT COMING OUT CAN HOLD UP TO 1000 SPERM

CAN CAUSE PREGNANCY CAN TRANSMIT STD’S

DID YOU KNOW SPERM CAN LIVE UP TO 3-4 DAYS INSIDE A WOMAN’S BODY EVERY 26 SECONDS A BABY IS BORN TO A TEENAGE MOTHER

2795 TEENAGE GIRLS WILL BECOME PREGNANT EVERY 24 HOURS EVERY YEAR 10% OF ALL YEAR OLD GIRLS BECOME PREGNANT

CANCER

A TERM FOR DISEASES IN WHICH ABNORMAL CELLS DIVIDE OUT OF CONTROL CANCER

BENIGN-NOT CANCEROUS; WILL NOT INVADE NEARBY TISSUE OR SPREAD TO OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY BENIGN

THE REMOVAL OF A SAMPLE OF TISSUE FROM THE BODY THAT IS EXAMINED UNDER A MICROSCOPE FOR THE PRESENCE OF ABNORMAL OR CANCEROUS CELLS BIOPSY

CHEMOTHERAPY

A TREATMENT AGAINST CANCER BY INJECTING ANTICANCER DRUGS INTO THE BODY

MALIGNANT

MALIGNANT CANCEROUS; CAN SPREAD TO OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY

METASTASIS

THE SPREAD OF CANCER FORM ONE PART OF THE BODY TO ANOTHER CELLS THAT SPREAD ARE LIKE THOSE OF THE ORIGINAL TUMOR

ONCOLOGIST

A DOCTOR WHO SPECIALIZES IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER A DOCTOR WHO SPECIALIZES IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER

PROSTATE CANCER

CANCER THAT DEVELOPS IN THE PROSTATE GLAND OF A MAN NEXT TO LUNG CANCER, PROSTATE CANCER IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF CANCER IN MEN

RADIATION THERAPY

A TREATMENT AGAINST CANCER USING HIGH ENERGY RAYS TO KILL CANCER CELLS

EXTERNAL RADIATION THERAPY

THE USE OF A MACHINE TO AIM HIGH-ENERGY RAYS AT THE CANCER

INTERNAL RADIATION THERAPY

INTERNAL RADIATION- THE PLACEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL INSIDE THE BODY AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE CANCER

THE RETURN OF SYMPTOMS AFTER A REMISSION AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE OUTBREAKS OF HERPES AFTER PERIODS OF TIME WITHOUT HERPES SORES RECURRANCE

DISAPPEARANCE OF THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF CANCER A REMISSION CAN BE TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT REMISSION

PROBLEMS THAT OCCUR WHEN TREATMENT AFFECTS HEALTHY CELLS SIDE EFFECTS

EXAMPLES OF SIDE EFFECTS FOR CANCER TREATMENT

FATIGUE NAUSEA DECREASED BLOOD CELL COUNTS HAIR LOSS MOUTH SORES

TUMOR-ABNORMAL MASS OF TISSUE THAT IS EITHER CANCEROUS OR BENIGN TUMOR

THE 5 MAIN CANCERS FOUND IN WOMEN

LUNG BREAST CERVICAL OVARIAN UTERINE

THE 3 MAIN CANCERS FOUND IN MEN

LUNG PROSTATE TESTICULAR

BREAST AND TESTICULAR SELF-EXAMINATIONS SHOULD BE PERFORMED ONCE A MONTH EVERY 3 MINUTES A WOMAN WILL BE DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER DID YOU KNOW?

EVERY 13 MINUTES ONE WOMAN WILL DIE FROM BREAST CANCER 1 OUT OF 8 WOMEN WILL GET BREAST CANCER IN THEIR LIFETIME DID YOU KNOW?

BREAST CANCER IS THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF CANCER AMONG WOMEN OF ALL AGES 95% OF BREAST CANCER HAPPENS IN WOMEN AGE 40 AND OLDER DID YOU KNOW?

OVER 7,000 MEN IN THE U.S. WILL BE DIAGNOSED WITH TESTICULAR CANCER THIS YEAR TESTICULAR CANCER IS THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF CANCER AMONG MEN DID YOU KNOW?

APPROXIMATELY 1,300 MEN WILL BE DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER AND 400 WILL DIE FROM THE DISEASE THIS YEAR DID YOU KNOW?