Metastasis

Question 1

What is carcinoma cancer?

Answer 1

Beginning of cancer where the cell isn’t moving anywhere

Question 2

what is metastasis

Answer 2

development of a cancerous cell away from the primary cancer site

Question 3

how many cells are needed for it to be too big for diffuse alone?

Answer 3

1 million cells

Question 4

is a invasive neoplasia tumour malignant or a carcinoma?

Answer 4

Malignant

Question 5

what does malignant mean?

Answer 5

cells able to invade surrounding tissues and organs

Question 6

if metastasis occurs in the lungs what can this result in?

Answer 6

Lung cancer

Question 7

how else can cancerous cells spread

Answer 7

lymph nodes (lymphatic drainage)

Question 8

how many times can cells metastasis

Answer 8

unknown/ unlimited

Question 9

how many cells allow a cell to be stated as a neoplasm (tumour)

Answer 9

1 million cells

Question 10

how many cells are needed to be able to detect a tumour?

Answer 10

1 billion cells (Size of a pea)

Question 11

1 trillion cells would be the size off? and would be?

Answer 11

basketball & fatal

Question 12

what does remission mean?

Answer 12

anything that passes below the clinical detection point

Question 13

what is the clinical detection point

Answer 13

1 billion cells

Question 14

can you relapse once you’ve gone into remission?

Answer 14

yes

Question 15

at 1 million cells what is seen to occur in relation to blood vessels?

Answer 15

angiogenesis- increased blood supply