Basics
The difference between benign and malignant tumors
What is that benign tumors are slow-growing and localized - do not spread, NON-CANCEROUS
while malignant tumors grow rapidly, invade surrounding tissues, CANCEROUS
What the use of drugs to kill cancer cells (neo-adjuvant chemo, adjuvant chemo) describes
Chemotherapy
The most common type of skin cancer
Where the oldest human cancer was found
What is in a hominid toe bone?
The human body's largest organ, weighing around eight pounds
What is the skin?
What metastasis is
What is the spread of tumors throughout the body via the blood or lymph system?
What is body tissue heated at ~113 F (radio/microwaves, lasers, etc), not widely available?
The two main types of sarcoma
What are soft tissue sarcoma and bone sarcoma?
What Greek physicians believed about tumors
What is that they were caused by an excess of black bile?
What is black current?
The stage of cancer in which cancer cells have DEFINITELY spread to surrounding lymph nodes
What is Stage 3?
The difference between neo-adjuvant chemo and adjuvant chemo
What is neo-adjuvant chemo is administered before surgery and adjuvant is administered after?
BONUS for +100: What do each of these chemo types do specifically?
What ABCDE stands for in melanoma
What are asymmetry, border, color, diameter, and evolving?
When the War on Cancer act was signed by President Nixon
What is 1971?
Name all Julio-Claudian Emporers of Ancient Rome
What are Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero?
Bonus (+100): if anyone on your team is in Latin yayaya
The percent that cancer mortality has declined by over the last 30 years
What is 34%?
How radiation therapy affects tumors and why
What is kills/shrinks them by damaging the cell DNA?
Difference between lymphocytic and myelogenous leukemia
What is lymphocytic affects lymphocytes (immune system) and myelogenous affects our granulocytes and monocytes?
What chemotherapy was originally developed from
What is mustard gas?
What a group of flamingos is called
What is a flamboyance?
Why cancer is more common in developed countries than underdeveloped countries
What is longer life expectancies and lower rates of infectious-disease-related deaths?
What immune checkpoint inhibitors and T-cell transfer are used for
What is immunotherapy?
Bonus (+500): describe these two treatments
Name 3 lymphoma symptoms
Painless swelling of lymph nodes in the neck, armpit, or groin
Drenching night sweats
Persistent fever
Unexplained weight loss
Extreme fatigue
The project completed in 2003 which analyzed human DNA, and identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome
What is the Human Genome Project?
The average amount of white blood cells in a human body
What is 1.8 trillion? (Closest wins)
Bonus (+400): How many new white blood cells are produced by the body daily?