Types of Cancer
What type of cancer starts in the connective tissue?
Sarcoma
What kind of doctor specializes in the treatment of cancer?
Oncologist
What are two types of tumors?
Benign and malignant
What does cancer do to blood vessels?
Tell blood vessels to grow towards tumors
Which type of lymphoma is generally considered "easier" to treat?
Hodgkin Lymphoma
What is radiation oncology?
Doctors that specialize in the use radiation therapy to kill off cancer cells
What do nuclei contain?
DNA
What does cancer do to the immune system?
Trick the immune system into maintaining the cancer cells
What two primary categories are typically used to classify carcinomas?
Adenocarcinoma and squamous cells
What are some procedures that surgical oncologists preform?
Biopsies and tumor removal
What are nucleotides?
Nucleotides contain information for cell division
Why do cancer cells grow more quickly?
Cancer cells make energy from nutrients in a different way than most normal cells
Swollen lymph nodes can be a sign of what type of cancer?
Lymphoma
Doctors who specialize in treating cancers that occur commonly in children are called...
Pediatric oncologists
When a cell is damaged, a series of molecular steps in a cell will result to its death
How are the chromosomes of cancer cells different to regular cells?
Cancer cells accumulate multiple changes in their chromosomes, such as duplications and deletions of chromosome parts
What are squamous cells?
Flat cells that line skin and certain types of organs
What is the name of the cancer that attacks the female reproduction system?
Gynecological cancer
Cancer is primarily caused by mutations involving what?
Tumor surpressing genes, oncogenes, DNA repair genes
What happens when a tumor metastasizes?
Cancer cells break away from where they first formed and form new tumors in other parts of the body