Life Style Factors
Lifestyle factors have a major impact on our health. You need to know how these factors, including tobacco smoking, our diet, lack of physical activity, environmental pollutants, and infectious agents, damage our body.
1. List five major diseases common in the UAE caused by smoking.
2. Give evidence to support that smoking causes cancers.
3. List five environmental agents very closely associated with cancers and name the type of cancer caused by each agent.
4. Some cancers are preventable, name three strategies used to prevent the occurrence of cancers.
5. What is cancer screening and what are the aims? Name two international effective cancer screening programs.