True or False? Up to 75% of all cancers are linked to behaviors such as smoking and poor diet.Question 8Answera.Trueb.False

Illness beliefs play no role in the initiation and promotion of cancer.Question 5Answera.Trueb.False

Which of the following statements is false?Question 3Answera.Approximately 25% of all colorectal cancer cases have a familial or genetic component.b.Daily aspirin use decreases the risk of sporadic colorectal cancer.c.Women are more likely to develop colorectal cancer in the distal/left colon.d.Age is a major, non-modifiable risk factor for sporadic colorectal cancer.

Which of the following is true regarding lung cancer among non-smokers?Question 3Answera.Less than 2% of all lung cancers occur in non-smokersb.10-20% of all lung cancers occur in non-smokersc.Non-smokers are less likely to be at stage IV when diagnosedd.5-year survival rate among non-smokers is relatively high (72%-76%)

Abelson (1995) wanted to examine whether smoking led to lung cancer. He examined several studies, which showed the following results:The longer a person has smoked cigarettes, the greater their chance of getting cancer.People who stop smoking have lower cancer rates than people who keep smoking.Smokers’ cancers tend to be in the lungs and of a particular type.Smokers who use filtered cigarettes have a somewhat lower rate of cancer than those who use unfiltered cigarettes.People who live with smokers have higher rates of cancer, too, because of their passive exposure to the same chemicals.Identify the true and false statements about Abelson’s investigation.True Statement(s)The studies Abelson examined address all possible third-variable problems.Abelson would be able to make a strong causal claim if the studies he examined had the same findings.All of the studies that Abelson investigated were correlational studies.The simplest explanation of these results is that the chemicals in cigarettes cause cancer.False Statement(s)

In the United States, it is estimated that 1/3 of cancers are caused by ____ alone.Multiple choice question.obesitypoor diettobacco usephysical inactivity