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Name these that are the smallest living structural and functional subunits of the body.
What are cells?
Name the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors or malignancies.
What is oncology?
Name this risk factor that may lead to an increased risk for certain cancers, infection with EBV and/or HPV.
What is viruses?
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
Human paillomavirus (HPV)
Name this tumor type that is benign in character and is primarily comprised of connective tissue.
What is a fibroma?
List three major symptoms patients may experience post-radiation treatment.
What are fatigue, skin reactions, and bone marrow depression?
Name the three components of human cells.
What are the plasma membrane, cytoplasm, and the nucleus?
Name these cells that reproduce abnormally and maybe cancerous or benign.
What are neoplasms?
Name this risk factor that may lead to an increased risk for certain cancers, infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori).
What is bacteria?
Name this tumor type that is cancerous in character and is primarily comprised of tissue of the skin, glands, and digestive, urinary, and respiratory tract linings.
What is carcinoma?
What is moist desquamation?
Name the threadlike structures composed of DNA and protein that extend throughout the nucleoplasm.
What is chromatin?
Name this that refers to a group of cells that grows out of control and eventually takes over the function of the affected organ.
What is cancer?
Name this risk factor that may lead to an increased risk for certain cancers, exposed to ultraviolet rays?
What is radiation?
Name this tumor type that is benign in character and is primarily comprised of fatty tissue.
What is a lipoma?
This is the length of time symptoms have been reported to continue after treatment ends.
What is 2 to 4 weeks?
What is mitosis?
Name this that cancer cells lack, allowing cells to continue to divide and invade surrounding tissues and organs.
What is contact inhibition?
Name this risk factor that may lead to an increased risk for certain cancers, exposure to smokeless tobacco, and alcohol?
What are chemicals?
Name this tumor type that is cancerous in character and is primarily comprised of blood, plasma cells, and bone marrow tissue.
What is leukemia?
Name this, which stimulates the proliferation of stem cells into red blood cells.
What is erythropoietin?
Name the structure that surrounds the nucleus.
What is a double-layered membrane?
List the three-step cancer cell growth and reproduction process.
What are initiation, promotion, and progression?
Name this risk factor that may lead to an increased risk for certain cancers, impaired with chronic illness, and stress.
What are immune factors?
Name this tumor type that is cancerous in character and is primarily comprised of connective tissue, including bone and muscle.
What is sarcoma?
List the nursing intervention that patients receiving treatment and have stomatitis and mucositis should be encouraged to perform.
What is rinse their mouths with saline or with a solution of one-half teaspoon of salt and one teaspoon of baking soda in a quart of water, OR if prescribed by the provider, use mouthwash containing lidocaine hydrochloride 2% viscous?
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