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Cancer Stinks
True or False
Multiple Choice
Are We There Yet?
100
Cells normally multiply this way.
What is mitosis?
100
This is the most common cancer among men.
What is lung cancer?
100
Malignant tumors can invade other tissues and may kill the organism.
True.
100
Which of these factors is more closely linked to cancer? A) Elevation B) Obesity C) Gender
B) Obesity
100
What is the relationship between lack of sleep and cancer?
Lack of sleep (as well as poor diet and stress) lowers the immune system making the body more susceptible to cancer.
200
There are this many commonly identified traits of cancer cells.
What is six?
200
This is the most common cancer among women.
What is breast cancer?
200
There are between 45 and 50 different kinds of cancer.
False. There are over 100 different kinds of cancer.
200
The probability that an individual, over the course of a lifetime, will develop cancer or die from it. A) Lifetime Risk B) Relative Risk C) Probability Cause D) Relational Risk
A) Lifetime Risk
200
Helicobacter pylori causes ulcers, which are a major factor in the development of ____ cancer.
Stomach
300
Apoptosis can be described as this.
What is programmed cell death.
300
The University of Utah suggest that a gene for ___ exists.
breast cancer
300
The Lymphatic System is part of the immune system.
True.
300
A rare form of eye cancer appears to be transmitted from mother to child. This is an example of: A) Contagious Factor B) Dietary Factor C) Ecological Factor D) Biological Factor
D) Biological Factor
300
Chemotherapy used to treat one form of cancer may ____ risk for another type of cancer.
Increase
400
This is angiogenesis.
What is "cancer cells acquire the capacity to draw out their own supply of blood and blood vessels".
400
List one cancer causing substance that may be found in some workplaces that can cause cancer.
Asbestos, Nickel, Chromate, Benzene, Arsenic, Radioactive substances, Cool tars, Herbicides/pesticides
400
1 in 5 deaths are due to some form of cancer.
False. 1 in 4 deaths are due to cancer.
400
Are death rates from breast cancer slowly increasing or decreasing?
Decreasing. (Yay!)
400
This is a microscopic examination of cellular development.
What is a biopsy?
500
Describe metastasis.
What is the movement of cancer cells to other parts of the body?
500
What population sees the highest death rates from cancer in the U.S.?
African Americans
500
Red Blood Cells are tasked with fighting pathogens that cause cancer.
False. White blood cells fight pathogens.
500
This is the transplantation of normal genes into cells in place of missing or defective ones in order to correct genetic disorders.
What is gene therapy?
500
What is the ratio of women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer?
1 out of 8