Therapeutics Exam 1 (Wendt and Dykhous) Flashcards
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6 essential characteristics of cancer? sustaining \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ evading \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ activating \_\_\_\_\_\_ enabling \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ inducing \_\_\_\_\_\_ resisting \_\_\_\_\_\_
sustain: proliferative signaling
evade: growth suppressors
activate: invasion and metastasis
enable: replicative immortality
induce: angiogenesis
resist: cell death
2 newer/emerging hallmarks of cancer
deregulating _______
avoiding ______
deregulate: cellulare energetics
avoid: immune destruction
Terminology:
Cancer?
any malignant neoplasm
Terminology:
Tumor
nonspecific term meaning lump or swelling
Terminology:
Neoplasm
any new growth - benign or malignant
Terminology:
Neoplasia
process of expansion due to defects in the molecular controls that regulate cellular proliferation/cell death
Terminology - the “plasias”:
Hyperplasia
increase in NUMBER of cells
Terminology - the “plasias”:
Metaplasia
SUBSTITUTION of one type of adult tissue to another adult tissue
Terminology - the “plasias”:
Dysplasia
LOSS OF NORMAL architecture/ abnormal cellular proliferation
Terminology - the “plasias”:
Anaplasia
loss of STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIATION
Terminology - the “plasias”:
Desmoplasia
formation and proliferation of CONNECTIVE TISSUES and cells
Terminology - the “omas”:
Carcinoma
malignant neoplasm of EPITHELIAL cell origin
Terminology - the “omas”:
Adenoma
epithelial neoplasm derived from glandular tissue
Terminology - the “omas”:
Papilloma
surface epithelium in which neoplastic cells grow outward in finger like fibrovascular stalks
Terminology - the “omas”:
Teratoma
germ cell neoplasm –> several different differentiated cell and tissue types
Terminology - the “omas”:
Sarcoma
malignant neoplasm from mesenchymal tissues (aka soft tissues Ex: muscle)
Terminology - the “omas”:
Lymphoma or Leukemia
malignant neoplasms of hematopoietic tissues
Terminology - the “omas”:
Blastoma
more common in children —
caused by malignancies in precursor cells
Terminology - the “omas”:
Melanoma
cancer of pigment producing cells
_____ is the most lethal aspect of cancer
Metastasis
Metastatis is a multi step process:
Normal epithelium –> _____ –> _________ –> ______ –> intravasation/extravasation –> metastatis
dysplasia; carcinoma in situ; invasive carcinoma
Metastatis is highly _____ process
inefficient
unlike carcinomas, sarcomas arise from ______
soft tissues
leukemia is the cancer of _____ cells
white blood