Risk Factors & Causes
What is the main risk factor for leukemia (particularly AML)?
What is exposure to high levels of radiation or certain chemicals?
What differentiates cancer cells from normal cells?
What is abnormal growth and division?
This imaging test is commonly used to assess lymph node enlargement and staging in lymphoma.
This is used to refer to patient's overall well-being (such as physical, emotional, and social health) during and after cancer treatment.
What is quality of life/QOL
This federal agency reviews clinical trial data and approves new canacer treatments int he United States/
What is the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)?
What is the main risk factor for lymphoma?
Lymphoma arises when which cells mutate? be a bit more specific
What are B cells or T cells?
It is a routine blood test that is often take as the first step in detecting abnormal white blood cell, red blood cell, or platelet counts.
What is a CBC?
Alkylating chemotherapy agents may damage germ cells, increasing long-term risk of this reproductive complication.
What is infertility?
What is the most common route of administration for blood cancer drugs?
What is IV delivery?
How much more likely are people with autoimmune diseases to develop lymphoma compared to the general population?
What is 2-4 times higher risk?
Lymphoma is primarily caused by what type of genetic mutations in lymphocytes?
acquired (somatic)
If doctors suspect leukemia, they may take a sample from this spongy tissue inside bones to confirm the diagnosis.
What is bone marrow?
Difficulty concentrating or remembering information after chemotherapy is commonly referred to as this.
What is "chemo brain"?
Blood cancer research has increasingly moved towards which type of cell therapy?
What is CAR-T cell therapy?
Which virus is associated with several lymphoma subtypes?
What is Epstein-Barr virus?
Which aneuploidy (genetic condition of having an abnormal amount of chromosomes) carries an increased risk of blood cancers?
What is trisomy 21?
This molecular technique amplifies specific DNA sequences and is commonly used to detect specific oncogenic mutations in blood cancers.
What is PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)?
This risk of this low bone density conditioned is increased due to long-term steroid use during treatment
What is osteoporosis?
Trials using BCL-2 inhibitors aim to restore this programmed cell death process that cancer cells often evade.
What is apoptosis?
What pesticide is associated with non-Hogdkins lymphoma?
glyphosate (roundup)
What sort of chromosomal rearrangement is responsible for a lot of leukemias?
What are chromosomal translocations?
CD20 is a marker commonly found on this type of immune cell, often involved in certain lymphomas.
What are B cells?
Chronic activation of the sympathetic nervous system during survivorship stress increases heart rate and blood pressure through release of these hormones.
What are epinephrine and norepinephrine?
What is Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)?