Emergency & Community Health Outreach
Breast Cancer: Prevent, Detect, Treat
Odds are, most of the members of your class know someone who has been affected by breast cancer. Teach them more about prevention through healthy lifestyles, detection with self-testing and mammograms, and the most effective treatments...
Cancer Care
What is Breast Cancer?
How gets breast cancer? What are the hereditary risk factors? Can individuals reduce their risk factors? If you are looking for a resource to use during October's in Breast Cancer Awareness Month, check out the lessons in this packet.
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Breast Cancer Awareness
In this health learning exercise, students find the words that give information about breast cancer and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Skin Cancer Lesson Plan
Skin care is a topic often overlooked in the health curriculum. This should not be the case because most types of skin cancer can be prevented, or if detected early enough, can be successfully treated. So take the time to teach your...
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Straight Talk On Tough Issues
Young scholars engage in a lesson that is focused upon the concept of breast cancer and research is conducted using a variety of reference sources. They reflect upon how different people deal with the tragedy of cancer and then students...
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Race Toward a Cure
Learners come to explain how the presence of a mutation in the BRCA-1 or BRCA-2 gene, along with another acquired sometime after birth, affect the chances developing breast cancer.
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Ghost in Your Genes
High schoolers explore DNA microarrays. In this genetics lesson, students model DNA microarrays that are used by scientists. High schoolers work to determine levels of breast cancer genes in patients. They will determine the treatment...
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Sexual Health Care
Why is it so important to get examinations of the breasts and genitalia? It could be a matter of a life or death situation. Better to be a little embarrassed, or a little uncomfortable, than the alternative of having an undetected...
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Genetic Testing for Disease Susceptibility
Students explore how testing for particular genetic variations can help people to make decisions in lifestyle and health care choices. They analyze a Web-based case study, participate in class discussion, view video segments and...
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Quest For A Cure Wordsearch
For this health worksheet, students find the words associated with the disease of cancer and the answers are found when clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Test Your Vocabulary Skills
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read a list of fifteen illnesses and decide which of these illnesses is life-threatening. Four of the fifteen sicknesses are life-threatening.
American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society: Overview: Breast Cancer
This excellent site covers all the issues related to breast cancer. Topics include the causes of breast cancer, risk factors, prevention, early detection, diagnosis, staging, treatment, questions for your doctor, after treatment, and so on.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Breast Cancer
Thorough overview of breast cancer. Includes information on symptoms, treatment, prevention, and much more.
Other
Health Talk Online: Breast Cancer
You will find actual interviews with individuals diagnosed with breast cancer in written, audio, and video form. The interviews are divided into three categories; discovery, treatment and living with it. There is a Q&A section that...
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute: Breast Cancer Surgery Choices
This sit is provided by the National Institute of Health, National Cancer Institute. The site includes information on breast cancer, details of treatment options, and questions a woman might ask her doctors.
WebMD
Web Md: Breast Cancer Symptoms and Types
Information about breast cancer. Outlines the warning signs and symptoms associated with breast cancer.
American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society: Participate: More About Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
Information on the fight against breast cancer and the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. Links are provided for potential fundraising volunteers.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: High Risk of Breast Cancer
Explains a couple of the treatment options for women who have an unusually high risk of getting breast cancer.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Breast Cancer
This is an article by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. It discusses the discovery of two breast cancer genes, and some environmental and other factors that may affect whether someone gets breast cancer.
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Breast Cancer
Why do people get breast cancer and how is it treated? Find out more in this article for kids.
Macmillan Cancer Support
Cancerbackup: Breast Cancer Information Center
This impressive site offers a clear and concise explanation of the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer.
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Kids Health: Breast Cancer
Use this site to learn about cancer of the breast. This article explains the signs and treatment for this type of cancer.
American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society: Stay Healthy
This large site from the American Cancer Society offers comprehensive information on many kinds of cancer. From the left navigation bar, click to Prevention, Early Detection, Nutrition and Prevention, or Environmental Risks.
Other
Emory University: Cancer Quest
Provides an in-depth look at the biology of cancer, including a detailed description of the disease process from the basics of cells to the diagnosis and treatment of various types of cancers. Includes videos, animations, and interactive...
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