1. Noncommunicable Diseases

2. What are they?? Diseases that are not spread through contact
Caused by a breakdown in body cells and tissues
May begin due to person’s lifestyle habits, environment, or heredity

3. Common Noncommunicable Diseases
Allergies
Alzheimer’s disease
Arthritis
Asthma

4. More… Cerebral palsy Cystic fibrosis Multiple sclerosis
Muscular dystrophy
Sickle-cell anemia

5. Cancer Abnormal body cells growing out of control
Carcinogens: substances that cause cancer
- tobacco, sunlight, radiation, chemicals, air and water pollution

6. Choices Article September 2016
What happened to Miya that made her realize something wasn’t right with her body?
What did Miya’s chemotherapy treatment involve?
What were the hardest parts of treatment?

7. Choices Article Critical Thinking
Miya said that she was “really in touch with her body.” What does she mean by that?
Miya’s summer plans were sidetracked by her need for treatment. Why else might someone have to miss out on certain events if they became seriously ill?
Why did Miya’s friendship with Kianna grow stronger?

8. BELL RINGER
Day 2
Think of ONE non-communicable disease and describe how this disease has affected you or someone in your family.

9. Tumors
When an abnormal cell survives and reproduces, it groups together to form a mass called a tumor
Where was Miya’s tumor located?
Benign: not cancerous
Malignant: cancerous
Which type of tumor did
Miya have?

10. Common types of cancer Skin cancer: exposure to sunlight
Lung cancer: #1 cause of cancer deaths
Lymphoma: weakens the immune system
Colon and rectal cancer: diet related
Breast cancer: most common in women over 50
Cancer of reproductive organs: both men and women (ovarian, testicular, cervical)
Leukemia: affects tissues that produce blood cells

11. Cancer treatments Surgery: remove cancer cells from body
Radiation: x-rays are aimed at tumors to destroy cancer cells
Chemotherapy: chemicals are used to destroy cells (can cause nausea, hair loss, or other side effects)

12. Heart Disease
Any condition that lessens the strength or function of the heart or blood vessels

13. How to prevent Heart disease?
Four factors out of your control
- age, gender, race, and family history
Five factors within your control
- weight, exercise, diet, stress, tobacco

14. Treating Heart disease
Heart transplant: replacing damaged heart with a healthy donor heart
Re-route: use an artery from the patient’s leg to form a detour
Angioplasty: using a tiny
balloon to crush the
fatty deposit