Description
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. You have been invited by your local community health department to give a PowerPoint presentation on cancers. Your goal is to educate your audience about the definition of cancer, the causes, means for early detection and preventative measures. The meeting will take place at the health department during a community health fair. Be mindful that your target audience will be composed of people from the local community who most likely will not have a background in science or medicine.
Your assignment will be to pick one cancer and discuss each of the following:
Your PowerPoint presentation should be written with your audience in mind. Remember, your audience does not have a science or medical background, so you will need to translate any “jargon” into something that they will understand.
You must write your “script” of what you will say to your audience in the notes section of each PowerPoint slide. Each slide will have a picture and/or bullet points, along with your notes located in the notes section below the slide, with the specific talking points you will deliver to the audience.
The presentation should be between 10–15 slides, not including the title and references slides.
Creating an Effective PowerPoint Presentation
An effective PowerPoint presentation will include:
- An introduction: bulleted list of background and key points
- A body: multiple slides, each with one key point
- A conclusion: bulleted list of major points
Explanation & Answer
This is your presentation.
Cancer
Name:
Institution:
Todays Leading Killer- Lung cancer
Introduction
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Cancer consists of a ailments of
diseases characterized by cells
undergoing abnormal growth and
which invade other body parts.
Tumors may not necessarily be
cancerous as they do not invade to
body parts (Manfred 2014).
Symptoms
• The symptoms include a lump
on the body surface, prolonged
cough, abnormal bleeding,
unrealistic loss of weight and
observable different bowel
movements (Manfred 2014).
• These symptoms are symptoms
of cancer, but may have other
different causes.
More about cancer
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Cancers consists of a large family of
ailments involving abnormal cell
growth spreading to different parts of the
body (Kleinsmith, 2015).
This growth forms a subgroup
of neoplasms.
A neoplasm a swelling consisting of many
abnormal cells forming a lump..
What causes cancer
Some types of cancer exist in
families, though not linked to
parental genes inherited to the
offspring. 90 per...