Cancer Basics
This term refers to diseases where abnormal cells divide uncontrollably.
Answer: What is cancer?
Henrietta Lacks contributed an immortal line of cells from this type of cancer
Cervical cancer
This type of treatment is focused on delivering medications made of powerful chemicals that kill rapidly dividing cells
Chemotherapy
All the information needed for function within the body is encoded in this structure found within the nucleus of cells
DNA
This type of cancer has the highest mortality rate
Lung cancer
These tumors can spread by invasion and metastasis and are considered true cancers
Malignant
In 1775, chimney sweeps were found to have unusually high rates of this cancer
Scrotal cancer
Screening and regular checkups with a medical provider gives the best chance for surviving cancer and is known as this
Prevention
Normal cells that need to be replaced will undergo a programmed death known as this
apoptosis
This field studies disease patterns and helped identify early cancer risk factors
Epidemiology
This is the major way that cancer spreads through the body.
Metastasis
Hippocrates named cancer after noticing tumors resembled this creature
Crab
Removal of a piece of cancerous tissue is obtained through this method after which the cells will be looked at under a microscope
Biopsy
Cancer occurs in rapidly dividing cells such as these, most often found in the skin, mucosal lining, and embryos
Stem cells
This term refers to the amount of people in a population that have a certain kind of cancer
Incidence rate
A mass of cells that causes swelling without inflammation
Tumor
The war on Cancer was declared in this year when Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act
1971
This type of treatment must be delivered precisely since it is also a cause of mutations that will lead to cancer
Radiation
Cancerous cells will bypass these during cell division as a result of mutations
Checkpoints
Cancer cells cross this barrier in order to metastasize
Basement membrane
A mass of abnormal cells that remains where it originated is called this.
In situ
This correlation discovered by Bruce Ames linked mutagenicity to this characteristic
Carcinogenicity
A tumor of this grade is harder to treat than some metastatic tumors due to its hyperproliferation and lack of "normal" cells
Grade 3
Cancerous cells will often produce this enzyme in order to rebuild their telomeres and prevent cell death
Telomerase
This government program collects U.S. cancer incidence, survival, and mortality data.
SEER program