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Leading sites of new cancer cases ✔Correct Answer-Male- prostate
Female- Breast

Leading cause of cancer deaths ✔Correct Answer-Male- lung and bronchus
Female- lung and bronchus

without shape or differentiation, small and round ✔Correct Answer-Anaplastic

A Developmental gene expressed at an inappropriate time, capable of transforming a normal
cell into a cancer cell ✔Correct Answer-Oncogene

cancer development; also called carcinogenesis ✔Correct Answer-Oncogenisis

substances that change the activity of a cell's genes so that the cell becomes a cancer cell. May
be chemicals, physical agents, or viruses ✔Correct Answer-Carcinogen

COMMON CARCINOGENS ✔Correct Answer-Alcohol
Steroids
Arsenic
Asbestos
Benzene
Chemotherapy drugs
Diesel exhaust
formaldehyde

new cell growth not needed for normal body growth ✔Correct Answer-Neoplasm

new, nonmalignant cell growth not needed for normal body growth ✔Correct Answer-Benign
neoplasm

cancerous, new growth of cells by invasion that is not needed for normal growth and
development ✔Correct Answer-Malignant neoplasm

a tumor formed in a specific tissue as a result of a carcinogenic agent or event ✔Correct
Answer-Primary tumor

a tumor formed as a result of breaking off from a primary tumor and spreading to distant sites
(metastisis) ✔Correct Answer-Secondary tumor

, cell division by exact duplication
-Most tissues and organs stop growing by cell division after development is complete
✔Correct Answer-Mitosis

growth that causes tissue to increase in size by enlarging each cell-normal cells ✔Correct
Answer-Hypertrophy

growth that causes tissue to increase in size by increasing the number of cells- cancer
✔Correct Answer-Hyperplasia

the amount of time it takes for a tumor to double in size by mitotic cell divisions ✔Correct
Answer-Doubling time

the low white blood cell counts that occur after cancer chemotherapy- usually 7 to 10 days after
administration ✔Correct Answer-Nadir

chemicals that can cause tissue damage on direct contact ✔Correct Answer-Vesicant

the period of time necessary for one cell to enter and complete one round of cell division by
mitosis ✔Correct Answer-Generation time

Characteristics of normal cells ✔Correct Answer--Limited cell division
1. to develop normal tissue
2. to replace lost or damaged normal tissue

to ensure that each organ has adequate number of cells at their functional peak ✔Correct
Answer-Apoptosis

specific appearance, size, shape ✔Correct Answer-Show specific morphology

Characteristics- continued ✔Correct Answer--Small nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio- size of nucleus
is small
-Perform specific differentiated functions
-Adhere tightly together
-Are nonmigratory
-Grow in an orderly and well-regulated manner

Characteristics- continued ✔Correct Answer--Contact inhibited- each cell divides only when
some of its surface is not in direct contact with another cell
-Euploid- having 23 pairs of chromosomes

Characteristics of abnormal cell growth
-Benign tumor cells ✔Correct Answer--Have inappropriate or continuous cell growth
-Show specific morphology- of parent cells

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