Easy Peasy Vocab: A very small bulding- block of the body
What is the meaning of a Cell?
100
An example of Immunotherapy are ______________ treatments
What are bone marrow treatments?
100
Radiation therapy is the use of ________ to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors
What is ionizing radiation?
100
Works well for ___________ cancers.
What is smaller cancers?
100
Chemotherapy has the potential to harm _____ cells
What are healthy cells?
200
Nanotreatment can kill cancer cells by packaging tumor busting genes that are wrapped in ___________ that are taken up only by cancer cells
What are microscopic nanoparticles?
200
Immunotherapy refers to a set of theraputic strategies designed to induce the patients own _____________to fight the tumor
What is immune response?
200
Radiation's effects are _________ and confined to the treated area
What is Localized?
200
The process of a cancer growing and or multiplying- spreading to other areas of the body
What is metastatasize?
200
The process of ablating blood blood marrow so that the body can recover is called ______________
What is total body irritation or TBI?
300
_______ cells surrounding the cancer cells are not affected or damaged.
What are Healthy cells?
300
abnormal
When a person has cancer, the cells become __________.
300
Radiation injures or destroys cells in the treated area or ______________
What is Target Tissue?
300
After Metastatisizing, removing all of the cancer through surgery is nearly ________?
What is imposssible?
300
Chemotherapy interferes with _______________ in various ways
What is cell division
400
The microscopic nanoparticles release a killer _________ into the cancer cells while the healthy cells are not harmed.
What is protein?
400
Hormonal Therapy is the process of providing or blocking certain __________ which can stop the growth of some cancers.
What is Hormones?
400
Radiation Therapy is usually used to treat ________ tumors.
What is Solid?
400
A surgery treatment option for breast cancer
What is Masectomy?
400
Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer through the use of _________ drugs
What is Cytotoxic drugs?
500
Nanotechnology is hopeful for those with ________ cancer because of the close proximity to vital organs
Inoperable
500
At times, removing or blocking ___________________ is an additional treatment
What is Estrogen?
500
The dosage of radiation to sites depends on the ______________ and whether tissues and other vital organs are in close proximity and could be potentially damaged.
What is Radiosensitivity?
500
The process of determining the extent of the disease and wether a cancer has spread to the regional lymph nodes
What is staging?
500
The treatment of giving 2 or more drugs at the same time is called _________________