What's in your Blood?
Mitosis
Cells
Chemotherapy
Stem Cells
100
These cells carry oxygen to your body's cells.
Red Blood Cells (RBCs)
100
The acronym used to help us remember the steps of Mitosis.
PMAT
100
An example of a cell that divides quickly:
Cancer cells, skin cells, hair cells, stomach cells, etc.
100
Chemotherapy targets what kinds of cells?
Fast/quickly dividing cells
100
Stem cells are...
Immature cells that do not have a job
200
This part of your blood prevents you from bleeding out when you have a cut.
Platelets
200
The stage that this cell is in:
Metaphase
200
The name of the process that, when it goes wrong, could lead to the development of cancer.
Cell Cycle and/or Mitosis
200
Chemotherapy targets ________ in order to kill cells:
(How does chemo work)
cell cycle/mitosis
200
This needs to occur BEFORE someone receives stem cells:
Chemo/radiation to get rid of as many cancer cells as possible
300
The fluid in which your blood cells are suspended in
Plasma
300
The stage that this cell is in:
Telophase
300
Cells replicate their DNA in this stage:
S Phase
300
The word for someone whose cancer is undetectable or mostly eliminated from their body.
Remission
300
Stem cells can be collected from these 3 locations:
Bone marrow, Peripheral blood, Umbilical cord
400
These cells were cancerous in Hina's case study.
Blasts (HSCs, Blood Stem Cells)
400
The stage that allows chromosomes to get pulled apart:
Anaphase
400
Cells sometimes enter this stage when they are NOT actively dividing or getting ready to divide:
G-0
400
Doctors need to maximize the amount of cancer cells killed in a patient while also considering what?
Making sure not too many healthy cells are killed in the process
400
One of the reasons someone might have a hard time finding a stem cell donor:
No living relatives, ethnicity that is not well represented in donor pool
500
A "natural killer cell" is this type of blood cell.
White blood cell
500
This stage is often included in Telophase
Cytokinesis
500
The name of the two types of genes that influence the development of cancer
Proto-oncogenes & Tumor Supressor Genes
500
Chemotherapy often causes patients to lose their hair because:
Chemo drugs target fast-growing/dividing cells, like the cells in your hair follicles.
500
What collection method of stem cells leads to lower instances of GvHD:
Cord blood/Umbilical cord- fetal stem cells lead to lower risk of developing GvHD