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How can a person help decrease his or her risks of heart disease cancer and other diseases?
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How are communicable diseases different from cancer?
Cancer is not tranfrered from person to person, it is a systemiic disease in the body caused by bad cells. Communicable diseases are transfred from person to person by germs & viruses, like a cold or the flu.
What are types of non infectious disease?
Cancer, diabetes, hypertension are few non infectious diseases. These diseases are not transferred from one person to other person.
Why is cancer is an example of non communicable diseases?
The reason that cancer is an example of a non-communicable disease is that it can not be transmitted person to person. A cold is communicable because you can get a cold from someone else.
Is lung cancer caused by smoking a infectious disease?
No. Cancers are not communicable diseases- they are specific to the patient. You cannot 'catch' cancer by contact with an infected person.
What is the definition of non communicable diseases?
Uncommunicable diseases or Non-communicable diseases is considered as lifestlye diseases like heart attack, hypertension, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and it is not transferable.
What is non-infectious diseases?
CancerDiabetes HypertensionOsteoporosisAlzheimer'sHeart DiseaseFibromyalgiaReferencesCDC: CancerMayo Clinic: DiabetesNational Osteoporosis Foundation: OsteoporosisThis is a short list but the most popular.
Examples of non-communicable disease?
A non-communicable disease is a type of disease that cannot be transmitted from person to person. Examples of non-communicable diseases include arthritis, cerebral palsy, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, heart disease and Alzheimer's disease.
What are five examples of chronic disease?
Obesity, heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, skin cancer, colon cancer, type 2 diabetes, anxiety, depression, sexually transmitted diseases, etc.. You can't completely prevent these diseases by changing your lifestyle, but you can decrease your odds of getting them.
What are the non-commnicable diseases?
Noncommunicable diseases are illnesses that cannot be transmitted by germs, viruses, or fungal infections. Examples are Cancer, high blood pressure, Chrone's disease, leukemia, Spinal bifida, ALS, COPD, etc.
What is non communicable?
Non Communicable simply means that you can't catch the disease from casual contact with another person who has it. Cancer, or heart disease would be a terrible disease but you cant "Catch them" for someone that has them. A cold or the flu, std's are all examples of "Communicable diseases", diseases you can catch from contact with someone that has them.
Is smoking communicable or non communicable disease?
No, heart disease is not communicable, in that it cannot be passed directly from person to person.
What statement best describe noncommunicable diseases?
You did not give us the choices, but a disease that is non-communicable is not contagious. That means you cannot catch it just by being in the same room with a person who has it. For example, cancer is non-communicable. If you visit a cancer patient, there is no evidence you will get cancer from visiting that person.
