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| Second most common cancer in children |
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| Tumor of the sympathetic nervous system |
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| Most common malignancy in children |
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| Soft tissue sarcoma of striated muscle |
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| Where is an ewing sarcoma found? |
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| How much of childhood cancer is related to environmental enfluence? |
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| Is the latency period of childhood cancer short or long? |
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| These are used to screen, diagnose, establish prognosis, monitor treatment, and detect recurrent disease. |
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| How would one detect abnormal cells in the cervix? |
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| What is removal of a tissue specimen for microscopic study called? |
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| How good are cancer markers at screening for cancer? |
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| There is little value in using them as screening tests. Greatest value is monitoring therapy in people with widespread cancer. |
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| Syndrome characterized by anorexia, weight loss, wasting of fat and muscle tissue, and anemia with profound weakness. |
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| What is the major early sign of colorectal cancer? |
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| What are the generalized manifestations of cancer? |
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| Fatigue, anorexia, involuntary weight loss, and anemia |
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| What is the main bacteria responsible for increasing the risk of GI cancers? |
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| Epstein barr virus is responsible for increasing the risk of acquiring which cancer? |
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| Endogenous hormones increase the risk of which cancers? |
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| Breast, ovary and endometrial cancers. |
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| What types of cancer is cigarette smoking DIRECTLY related to? |
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| Lund and laryngeal cancer. |
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| Cigarette smoking is indirectly related to which types of cancer? |
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| Oropharynx, esophagus cancer, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, and myeloid leukemia. |
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| What type of cancer is retinoblastoma? |
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| an autosomal dominant inheritant cancer |
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| Describe tumor supressor genes |
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| They are genes that are able to recognize abnormal growth and reproduction of damaged cells, or cancer cells. They can interrupt production until the defect is corrected. |
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| What may happen if tumor suppressor genes are mutated? |
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| What might oncogenes that are mutated to proto-oncogenes produce? |
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-too much of a protein
-an abnormal protein
-a protein that turns on all by itself
-a protein that is made when not needed
-a protein that cannot turn off cell division
-a protein that should be made by a different cell |
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| Name the normal genes that code for normal proteins used in cell division. |
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| Which genes inhibit proliferation, slow the cell cycle and stop cell division when cells are damaged. |
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| What is the process whereby normsl cells are transformed into cancer cells? |
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| The development of a new vascular supply which occurs to provide nutrients and facilitates tumor growth |
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| It aids in attachment to the matrix. |
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| Where does colorectal cancer usually metastasize to? |
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| Where does testicular cancer usually metastesize to? |
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| Where does breast cancer usually metastesize to? |
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| What is it called when cancer cells of a specific cancer almost always metastesize to a specific organ? |
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| What is the lack of differentation in cancerous tissue called? |
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| Refers to the cells independence from normal cellular controls |
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| What is a connective tissue/muscle malignant tumor called? |
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| What is an epithelial tissue tumor called? |
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| What is a hematologic malignant tumor called? |
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| What is a benign smooth muscle tumor called? |
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| What is a benign striated muscle tumor called? |
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| What is a benign skin tumor called? |
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| What is a benign nerve cell tumor called? |
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| What is a benign blood vessel tumor called? |
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| What is a benign adipose tissue tumor called? |
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