Cancer in Action
A gene that can contribute to cancer development when it becomes abnormally activated is called this.
What is an oncogene?
Imaging technique used to monitor tumor size and calculate tumor volumes over time in living mice.
What is magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI?
This exposure is the leading preventable cause of many cancers, including lung cancer.
What is tobacco smoke?
This term describes unfair differences in cancer screening access, diagnosis, treatment, or outcomes among different groups of people.
What are cancer health disparities?
This is the process in which cancer cells spread from the original tumor site to distant organs.
What is metastasis?
This assay labels fragmented DNA and is commonly used to identify cells undergoing apoptosis.
What is TUNEL staining?
This type of radiation from sunlight can damage skin-cell DNA and increase the risk of skin cancer.
What is ultraviolet, or UV, radiation?
This imaging test uses low-dose X-rays to screen for breast cancer.
What is a mammogram?
After DNA damage, p53 can increase expression of this cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, which blocks progression from the G1 phase into S phase.
What is p21?
This thymidine analog becomes incorporated into newly synthesized DNA, allowing researchers to measure cell proliferation.
What is BrdU incorporation?
Regular consumption of this substance can increase the risk of cancers of the liver, breast, mouth, throat, and colon.
What is alcohol?
After this actor announced his colon cancer diagnosis in 2020 — having privately battled it for 4 years while filming — awareness spiked dramatically, especially among young Black men.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
In lymphoma, p53 restoration led to loss of tumour cells through what process?
What is apoptosis?
This antibody-based staining method was used to identify and localize proteins, such as p53, within tumor tissue.
What is immunohistochemistry, or IHC?
This type of smoke can increase cancer risk even when a person does not smoke themselves.
What is secondhand smoke?
Cancer screening is performed to look for cancer before a person develops these.
What are symptoms?
This process allows tumors to obtain oxygen and nutrients by stimulating the growth of new blood vessels.
What is Angiogenesis?
Originally from bacteriophage P1 and used to control p53 expression in vivo.
What is Cre lox recombinase system (CreERT2)?
This chemical can contaminate groundwater and is linked with skin, lung, and bladder cancer.
What is arsenic?
This actress’s public discussion of her BRCA1 mutation and preventive mastectomy increased public awareness of hereditary breast- and ovarian-cancer risk.
Who is Angelina Jolie?