Definitions
Diagnosis & Procedures
Breast Cancer
Miscellaneous
Carcinogens/Breast Cancer continued
100
abnormal cells that grow out of control and are able to invade other tissues
What is cancer?
100
Procedure where a doctor cuts out a small piece of tissue and sends it to a laboratory to be studied. A pathologist (a doctor who specializes in diagnosing diseases) looks at the tissue under a microscope to see whether it has cancerous cells.
What are Biopsies?
100
is a cancer that starts in the tissues of the breast.
What is breast cancer?
100
A lack of particular co-stimulated molecules that aid in the way antigens react with lymphocytes can impair the natural killer cells ability.
What ultimately causes cancer?
100
This surgery removes only the breast lump and some normal tissue around it. Radiation treatment is usually given after this type of surgery.
What is a Lumpectomy?
200
a mass of cells.
What is a tumor?
200
These tests or evaluation procedures produce pictures of areas inside the body. They include x-rays, like mammograms, or CAT scans, and MRI scans.
What are Imaging tests?
200
the most significant factors are advancing age and a family history of breast cancer.
What are the causes of breast cancer?
200
every cell
What are the cells cancer can occur in?
200
There is no sure way to prevent yourself from breast cancer.
How can breast cancer be prevented?
300
a tumor that doesn't grow into organs or break off and move and can be surgically removed.
What is a benign tumor?
300
A laboratory technician measures substances in the blood or urine that can indicate how advanced the cancer is or other features of your cancer.
What are Laboratory tests?
300
Accounting for 70 percent of all breast cancers, this is the most common type of breast cancer. It begins inside the duct and then penetrates the duct's wall to reach the fatty tissue of the breast.
What is Invasive (or infiltrating) ductal carcinoma?
300
Hereditary cancer represents some 10-20 percent of all cancers.
What is the percent approximately of cancer cases caused by genetics?
300
the same stuff you used when you dissected the frog, and is also commonly used as a preservative in many household products, glue in particleboard, and in plywood furniture.
What is Formaldehyde?
400
a tumor that does grow into organs, break off and spread and cannot be surgically removed.
What is a malignant tumor?
400
Genomics tests are tests of genes and their functions that can find mutations in certain genes that are known to cause cancer.
What are Genomics tests?
400
This is the second-most common tumor type, accounting for ten percent of all breast cancer. It begins in the terminal ducts of the breast milk-producing glands.
What is Invasive (or infiltrating) lobular carcinoma?
400
These cells can spread by travel through the blood stream or by travel through lymph vessels.
What is how do malignant tumors spread?
400
Used to control bugs and other vermin, they are loaded with carcinogens. Overexposure has been associated with lymphoma and leukemia.
What are Pesticides?
500
A substance capable of causing cancer in living tissue.
What are carcinogens?
500
Allows the doctor to look into the body through a thin, lighted tube called an endoscope.
What is Endoscopy?
500
This gender is most likely to get breast cancer
Who are women?
500
There are more than 200 different types of cancer
What is how many types of cancer are there?
500
A well-known carcinogen that can harm you even if you don't smoke but are simply exposed to it. We are exposed to this everyday and is essential to our lives.
What is Tobacco smoke and air?
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