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| An "umbrella" term to describe more than 100 diseases |
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| the process by which one or more cells undergo genetic changes that result in malignant transformation |
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| Viruses, ultraviolet and ionizing radiation, chemical agents, physical agents, HPV |
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| cells don't divide identically; they change from the original |
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| cells don't work together |
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| density-dependent growth inhibition |
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| cancer cells just push other cells out of their way |
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| restriction point control |
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| cancer cells take anything they can to grow |
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| cancer cells don't have this so they just drift away. |
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| cancer cells grow their own blood supply |
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| cancer cells don't perform the functions that their parent cells performed. |
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| "in the original position" there has been no penetration of the basement membrane so this is the easiest cancer to remove |
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| (not cancer) tumor cells grow only locally and cannot spread by invasion or metastasis. |
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| (cancerous) cells invade neighboring tissues, enter blood vessels and metastasize to different sites |
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| number of new cases diagnosed per year |
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| number of deaths from cancer in the last year |
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| % of people diagnosed with a certain type of cancer and are still alive 5 years later |
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| 7 warning signs of cancer CAUTION |
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| Change in bowel/bladder habits, A sore, Unusual bleeding, Thickening, Indigestion, Obvious change in wart, Nagging cough |
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| a tumor originating from undifferentiated embryonic cells and having little or no connective tissue |
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| Standard therapies for cancer treatment |
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| surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, biologic response modifiers, hematopoeitic stem cell transplant |
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| regulatory proteins, stimulate both humoral and cell-mediated immune responses as well as activation of phagocytic cells. |
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| hematopoeitic stem cell transplants |
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| replace diseased stem cells that are causing underlying disease. provide healthy stem cells to a pt whose marrow has been compromised |
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| definitive cancer diagnosis |
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| a monoclonoantibiody that blocks the growth factor protein that encourages growth of cancer cells |
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