Cancer Nate Sams 2/2/12

During our cancer unit i learned about how a tumor can be malignant, cancerous, and benign, not cancerous. Also, I learned that family history can play a large role in whether or not you can get most types of cancers. There is also a chance of getting cancer on your lifestyle choices like whether you smoke or drink alcohol, you can get cancer by being overweight for cancers like prostate, and pancreatic. Lastly I learned that metastasis is how cancer spreads throughout the body. 2 questions that were unanswered during the unit were when the cancer spreads is there a certain place each kinds of cancer attaches like when breast cancer spreads does it go to a specific other part of the body? My other question was what kinds of cancer can infants get. 1 thing that i enjoyed during the unit was the independent study of a cancer of our choice. What I disliked was the webquest.