What is cancer?
Tumors
Vocab
Types
Treatments
100
No, you can just remove the cells/kill the cells.
Can you "cure" cancer?
100
False
True or false, All tumors are cancerous?
100
refers to the direct migration and penetration by cancer cells into neighboring tissues
What is Invasion?
100
Breast Cancer
What is cancer in the beast?
100
Radiation Therapy
What is using X-rays or similar forms of radiation to treat cancer?
200
1 out of 26
One in how many people will have cancer in there life time?
200
malignant
Which type of tumor is cancer?
200
refers to the ability of cancer cells to penetrate into lymphatic and blood vessels, circulate through the bloodstream, and then invade normal tissues elsewhere in the body.
What is Metastasis?
200
Brain Cancer
What is cancer in the brain?
200
Chemotherapy
What is the use of medicines or drugs to treat cancer.
300
Cells
Cancer is the uncontrollable division of what?
300
Benign and Malignant
What are the different types of tumors?
300
tumors that are capable of spreading by invasion
What is Malignant?
300
Lung Cancer
What is cancer in the lungs?
300
Stem Cell Transplant
What is infusing healthy blood stem cells into your body to replacing your damaged or diseased bone marrow?
400
100
Approximately how many cancers are there?
400
Benign
Which tumor is non cancerous?
400
The altered cell and its descendants grow and divide rapidly, resulting in a condition
What is hyperplasia?
400
Ovarian Cancer
What is cancer in the ovaries?
400
Immunotherapy
What is the prevention or treatment of disease with substances that stimulate the immune response?
500
1,685,210
About how many people will die of cancer in 2016?
500
mass of cells, formed of these abnormal cells may remain within the tissue
Define Tumor
500
This cell’s descendants divide excessively and look abnormal, a condition
What is dysplasia?
500
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
What is cancer in the lymphocytes?
500
Hair loss
What is the most noticeable side effect of treatment?