Mini PBL4
Life Style Factors
Lifestyle factors has 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 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 & what are the aims? Name two international effective cancer
screening programs?
