Cancer Vocab

Question 1

Cancer

Answer 1

Diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade nearby tissues.

Question 2

Benign

Answer 2

Condition, growth, or tumor that is not cancerous.

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Dysplasia

Answer 3

An increase in abnormal cell growth.

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Malignant

Answer 4

Tumors that are cancerous.

Question 5

Carcinogen

Answer 5

A substance that causes cancer.

Question 6

Oncologist

Answer 6

Doctors whom diagnose and treat cancer.

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Metastasis

Answer 7

The spread of cancer cells from where its originated, to a different part of the body.

Question 8

Tumor

Answer 8

Abnormal mass of tissue built up when cells grow and divide more than they should.

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Mortality

Answer 9

Being mortal, destined to die.

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Morbidity

Answer 10

Having a disease, or having symptoms of a disease.

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Mutation

Answer 11

Change in the sequence of DNA.

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Hyperplasia

Answer 12

Increase of cell production in healthy organs or tissues.

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Invasive Cancer

Answer 13

Cancer that has spread beyond the layer of tissue in which it developed and is growing into surrounding, healthy tissues

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Leukemia

Answer 14

Cancer including abnormal multiplying amounts of white blood cells in the bloodstream, formed in the tissues.

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Adenoma

Answer 15

Noncancerous tumors.

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Sarcoma

Answer 16

Type of cancer that begins in the bones or soft tissues.

Question 17

Metastasize

Answer 17

To spread from one part of the body to another.

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Melanoma

Answer 18

Form of cancer that begins in the cells that consist of melanin.

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Carcinoma

Answer 19

Type of cancer formed in epithelial tissue.

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Prophylactic

Question 21

Ames test

Answer 21

method used to test potential carcinogenic effect of chemicals

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Anaplastic

Answer 22

Cancer cells that divide rapidly and have little or no resemblance to normal cells.

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Angiogenesis

Answer 23

Formation on new blood cells.

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Apoptosis

Answer 24

A type of cell death in which a series of molecular steps in a cell lead to its death.

Question 25

Biopsy

Answer 25

Procedure to remove a sample of tissues or cells, to be used in laboratory.

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Brachytherapy

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Treatment at a short distance during which radioactive sources are placed in close proximity to, or directly in the treatment volume.

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Cytokine

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A type of protein that is made by certain immune and non-immune cells and has an effect on the immune system.

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Combination Chemotherapy

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Treatment using more than one anticancer drug.

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Etiology

Answer 29

Cause of disease.

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Gene Therapy

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Genome

Question 32

GWAS genome-wide association study

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Grading Cancer

Question 34

Precancerous

Question 35

Incidence

Question 36

In-Situ Cancer

Question 37

NIH

Question 38

Necrosis

Question 39

Oncogene

Question 40

Oncologist

Question 41

Prognosis

Question 42

Proto-oncogene

Question 43

Remission

Question 44

Retrovirus

Question 45

SEER Program

Question 46

Somatic Cell

Question 47

Cancer Stage

Question 48

Screening

Question 49

Tumor-suppressor gene

Question 50

Risk Factor