Terminology
Abbreviation
Treatment
Classification
Miscellaneous
100
-blastoma
What is immature tumor?
100
Mets
What is metastases?
100
Treatment of cancer using chemicals.
What is chemotherapy?
100
Benign tumors of epithelial origin are designated by this term.
What is adenoma?
100
The cause of transformation from a normal cell to a cancerous one is a result from damage to the genetic material of the cell known as...
What is DNA?
200
Prot/o
What is first?
200
Bx
What is biopsy?
200
Name two side effects of radiation therapy.
What is alopecia, nausea, vomiting, fibrosis, mucositis..etc.
200
The largest group of malignant solid tumors of epithelial origin are named using this term.
What is carcinoma?
200
Name two classes of carcinogens.
What is chemical carcinogen (hydrocarbons), radiation, viruses, oncogenes, and inherited factors?
300
-ana
What is backward?
300
RT
What is radiation therapy?
300
Name two categories of cancer chemotherapeutic agents.
What is alkylating agents, antibiotics, antimetabolites, antimitotics. hormonal agents.
300
Tumors derived from bone marrow.
What are leukemias?
300
X-ray examination of the breast to detect breast cancer.
what is mammography?
400
mutagen/o
What is causing genetic change?
400
NHL
What is Non-Hodgkins lymphoma?
400
Four major approaches to cancer treatment.
What is surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and biological therapy.
400
Malignant tumor of bone.
What is osteosarcoma?
400
When a cell becomes malignant, these two processes are disturbed.
What is protein synthesis and mitosis.
500
Cac/o
What is bad?
500
MoAb
What is monoclonal antibody?
500
A surgical procedure of burning tissue to destroy it.
What is cauterization?
500
Tumors derived from tissue that is capable of differentiating into both epithelial and connective tissue.
What is mixed-tissue tumors?
500
Name three differences between a benign and a malignant tumor.
Benign: slowly growing, encapsulated and noninvasive, well-differentiated, nonmetastatic. Malignant: Rapidly growing, invasive and infiltrative, anaplastic and undifferentiated, metastatic.
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