AND VERIFIED ANSWERS YEAR 2024/2025
Cancer - verified answers-Neoplastic disease process, involves abnormal cell growth
and differentiation.
Disease prevention strategies for cancer - verified answers-Consume a healthy diet,
limit sugar and salt, maintain healthy body weight and body mass index, avoid
smoking and alcohol, avoid recreational drug use, use proper protection when
unavoidable, breast-feed infants exclusively for first six months, engage in physical
activity or exercise.
Risk factors for cancer - verified answers-Age, race, genetic predisposition, exposure
to chemicals/tobacco/alcohol, exposure to certain viruses and bacteria, diet high in
fat/red-meat and low in fiber, sun and UV light or radiation exposure, sexual
lifestyles, poverty/obesity/chronic a GERD, chronic disease.
Liver cancer is related to - verified answers-Infection with hepatitis B or hepatitis C
Human t-cell leukemia virus is related to - verified answers-Lymphoma and leukemia
Infection with HIV Increases risk of _______ and _______ - verified answers-
Lymphoma and leukemia.
Highest incidence of cancer in older adult women - verified answers-Colorectal,
breast, lung, pancreatic, ovarian
Highest incidence of cancer in older adult men - verified answers-Lung, colorectal,
prostate, pancreatic, gastric
Caucasian men are at higher risk for - verified answers-Testicular cancer
Caucasian women are at higher risk for - verified answers-Breast cancer
Infection with Epstein-Barr virus has been linked to ________ - verified answers-
Increased risk of lymphoma
Human papilloma virus infection is the main cause of __________ - verified
answers-Cervical cancer
HIV increases risk of - verified answers-Lymphoma and Kaposi's sarcoma
Helicobacter pylori increases risk of - verified answers-Stomach cancer and
lymphoma of the stomach lining
Tumor node metastasis system (TNM) - verified answers-Used to stage cancer.
TNM diagnostic notation of the staging system is NOT used to indicate response of a
tumor to medication therapy regimen used for treatment.