Which two categories take a major role in triggering cancer?
What is proto-oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes?
100
About _________ Americans alive today have a history of cancer.
What is 13.7 million?
100
Improvements in diagnosis have resulted from
a variety of new _________ techniques as well as
blood and other tests.
What is imaging?
100
The estimated cost for cancer in the U.S. was about $267 _______ in 2010.
What is billions?
200
This Greek word is what "cancer" derived from.
What is karkinoma?
200
Most human cells contain two copies, or _______, of each gene.
What is alleles?
200
Cancer is the ______ leading cause of death in the U.S.
What is second leading cause?
200
These are the traditional cancer therapy treatments.
What is surgery, chemotherapy, radiation?
200
The most common cancers are:
What is breast, lung, colorectal, and prostate?
300
Due to their help, we now understand that living tissues are composed of cells.
What is Robert Hooke and Rudolph Virchow?
300
Most proto-oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes play key roles in regulating cellular growth and survival during ______________ development.
What is embryonic?
300
Men have a __ percent lifetime risk of developing invasive cancer.
What is 45?
300
Genetic material from different sample populations can be analyzed using ______________ ________ _____ (GWAS).
What is genome-wide association studies?
300
________ plays an important role in helping
individuals make choices about enhancing
personal and public welfare.
What is science?
400
Hippocrates said cancerous veins looked like the legs of a crustacean. This animal was a:
What is a crab?
400
Proto-oncogene "HER2/neu (erbB-2)" is responsible for what common type of cancer?
What is breast and/or ovarian cancer?
400
Women have a __ percent chance of developing invasive cancer in their lifetime.
What is 38?
400
________ _________ is also allowing researchers to develop new treatments specifically targeted at molecular subtypes of different cancers.
What is molecular fingerprinting?
400
For ____, 226,160 new cases of lung cancer were
predicted, as were 160,340 deaths due to lung
cancer, lung disease, and heart disease.
What is 2012?
500
Cancer-causing agents are called what?
What is carcinogens?
500
Tumor-suppressor gene "p53" is responsible for what type of cancer?
What is skin, neck, and lung cancers + brain tumors?
500
_______ ____ compares the risk of developing cancer
between people in one group.
What is relative risk?
500
__ out of 10 compounds developed in the laboratory fail in human studies.
What is 9?
500
We are continually presented with great amounts of
relevant scientific and medical __________. We
are fortunate to have available a large amount
of convincing data about the development,
nature, and treatment of particular cancers.