Facts
Tumors
Cause & Development
Personal/Public Health
Miscellaneous
100
Cancer can occur here.
What is virtually any of the body's tissues.
100
non-cancerous tumor
What is benign?
100
A breakdown of the processes that regulate the growth of normal cells and tissues.
What is cancer?
100
The first level of cancer prevention.
What are individual changes?
100
The rate of new cancer cases per population.
What is incidence rate?
200
Cancer is characterized by this abnormal process.
What is uncontrolled cell division?
200
Cancerous tumor that has invaded surrounding tissue.
What is malignant?
200
Cancer-causing agents often damage these.
What are genes?
200
Two ways Health Care Providers influence cancer prevention.
What is counseling and screening?
200
The number of people still alive at some point after their diagnosis of cancer.
What is survival rate?
300
Incidence of cancer increases with this.
What is age?
300
Cancer cells travel throught the bloodstream and result in this type of tumor in a different location in the body.
What is metastatic?
300
Cancer results from genetic damage when?
What is across time?
300
What is good or bad, right or wrong.
What is ethics?
300
The number of deaths per cancer diagnosis.
What is mortality rate?
400
Chance of survival increases with these two factors.
What is early detection and treatment?
400
The first stage of tumor development.
What is cell mutation?
400
This leads to understanding normal cell cycle and new strategies for treating cancer.
What is cancer research?
400
Rules or regulations formed by the actions or lack of actions by the government.
What is public policy?
400
Men's lifetime risk for cancer.
What is 1 in 2?
500
Exposure to carcinogens, smoking, sun exposure, radiation, viruses, chemicals, family history.
What are risk factors for cancer?
500
The stage of tumor development in which the tumor is cancerous but still contained in its original location.
What is In situ cancer?
500
Shape changes, growth factors, and many chemical differences.
What are the ways cancer cells differ from normal cells?
500
Level of prevention in which the government regulates public exposure to known carcinogens.
What is national level?
500
Women's lifetime risk for cancer.
What is 1 in 3?
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