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VCE Stuff => VCE Health and Physical Education => VCE Arts/Humanities/Health => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Health and Human Development => Topic started by: rebeccab26 on September 27, 2012, 10:24:54 pm
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Could they ask to describe the different types of cancer and why they are included as part of the NHPA cancer control?
and for NHPA health promotion strategies, how many are you guys knowing? i was thinking 2 in detail for each and be able to name just one more?
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Could they ask to describe the different types of cancer and why they are included as part of the NHPA cancer control?
and for NHPA health promotion strategies, how many are you guys knowing? i was thinking 2 in detail for each and be able to name just one more?
They usually won't ask you specifically why for e.g. Colorectal cancer was included as part of the Cancer Control NHPA - all you have to know is just like one sentence about each of the cancers and that's it - you don't have to go into extreme detail regarding each of the cancers :) If you do feel that it might be good to know why each cancer was included in this NHPA, a general answer which applies to ALL of the cancers is that they're:
1) A major contributor to the fatal component of the burden of disease (YLL)
2) Cancers require hospitalisation and treatment such as chemotherapy which put burden on the healthcare system due to the high costs
3) Some cancers (e.g. lung cancer, colorectal cancer, skin cancers (melanoma)) are preventable through adoption of healthy lifestyle (in this case through avoiding smoking/eating a high fibre diet and getting some exercise/being "sun smart").
4) Also contribute significantly to the non-fatal component of burden of disease if the cancer is enduring and of a chronic nature (e.g. in the case of lung and colorectal cancers).
5) Have high direct, indirect and intangible costs to the cancer stricken individual and their families and community. E.g. costs of treatment, medication, hospitalisations. As well as lost productivity, lost time spent in treatment, and also loss of life when the cancer becomes uncontrollable.
For the NHPA Health promotion strategy, knowing one promotion strategy in detail for each NHPA is more than enough :) If you can remember two then that's awesome! But 1 is just the minimum and necessary requirement :)
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Does that include knowledge about non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-melanocytic skin cancer? I've just memorised which 8 types of cancer are the most focused on, but have no idea what those two entail.
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Does that include knowledge about non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-melanocytic skin cancer? I've just memorised which 8 types of cancer are the most focused on, but have no idea what those two entail.
you don't need to know those.
just the main 8 pretty sure.
those are just part of "skin cancer".
knowledge would only help your understanding
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Does that include knowledge about non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-melanocytic skin cancer? I've just memorised which 8 types of cancer are the most focused on, but have no idea what those two entail.
A quick explanation of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is that it's a type of cancer that begins in the lymphatic system when a tumour forms within a particular type of white blood cells called "Lymphocytes". Because the lymphatic system is a part of the immune system, this has a really bad impact on both our immunity against disease as the lymphatic system cannot filter out bacteria and viruses AND it also has subsequent effects on the lymphatic system itself (i.e. it causes the lymph nodes to swell up) which in turn cause severe fever and night sweats.
Non-melanocytic skin cancer is another type of skin cancer (alongside melanoma) that is a lot more common than melanoma but less severe (in the sense that it isn't life-threatening). The chance of getting this type of skin cancer increases as there is a progressively reducing capacity of cells to repair UV-induced damage at the DNA level
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Fixed. Happy Now?
Very, thank you =]
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Fixed. Happy Now?
Very, thank you =]
Haha good. Thanks for that!