Cancer
What is cancer?
Uncontrolled cell division
What is the name of the treatment that uses chemicals to kill cancer?
Chemotherapy
What is the name of the diagnostic imaging technique that uses the most radiation?
CT scan
What is the term for the spread of cancer?
Metastasis
What is the type of cancer treatment that removes the tumor and surrounding tissue during an operation?
Surgery
Which diagnostic imaging technique is the go-to for broken bones?
X-ray
What is the lab process that studies gene expression?
DNA Microarray
What is the type of cancer treatment that uses an approach that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle of each person.
Precision Medicine
Which diagnostic technique uses sound waves that bounce off internal structures within the body that creates images?
Ultrasound
What is the term for programmed cell death?
Apoptosis
What type of cancer treatment restores the blood-forming cells in people who have had theirs destroyed by cancer treatments, such as very high doses of chemo and radiation therapy.
Stem cell therapy
What diagnostic imaging techniques uses radio active tracers and scans the whole skeleton?
Bone scan
What are the 3 main gene types that prevents tumor formation?
Proto-oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and DNA repair genes
What type of cancer treatment is developed specifically to aim at certain parts of the cell and the signals that are needed for a cancer to develop and keep growing?
Targeted Therapy
What is the term for the surgical removal of tissue that is examined for incidence of disease?
Biopsy
Name 3 types of risk factors for cancer:
Behavioral, environmental and genetic
What type of cancer treatment is used to stop or slow the growth of cancer cells that use chemical signals to feed cancers such as prostate and breast cancers?
Hormone therapy
What is the most common type of cancer that usually covers external and internal structures?
Carcinomas
What is the term for the time between the first exposure and the incidence of cancer?
Lag time
What type of treatment has one approach that focuses on teaching the immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells more accurately?
Immunotherapy
What type of cancer is typically found in bone, fat and muscle?
Sarcoma
What does a red color on a DNA microarray mean?
Upregulated or expressed only in cancerous tissue
What is the name of a treatment that is typically a local treatment, affecting only the part of the body being treated?
Radiation therapy
What is the term for cancerous tissue?
Malignant
What is the pneumonic to use for skin cancer self-checks and what does it stand for?
A- asymmetry
B- border
C- color
D- diameter
E- evolving
What is the term for a type of therapy designed to help patients become attuned to the way in which the body reacts to stress and learn ways to use the mind to influence many of the body’s involuntary functions.
Biofeedback
What is the term for a non-cancerous tumor?
Benign
What is the term for a mutated proto-oncogene?
Oncogene
What is the term for an artificial part of the body used to augment a missing part of the body?
Prosthetic
What is the term for a cancer that can be caused by genetics and a lifestyle component?
Multifactorial