Cancer quiz

What is cancer?

• The cell cycle moves too slowly

• Mitosis is skipped in the cell cycle

• A cell enters into the G1 phase

• Uncontrolled growth of Cells

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Tumors are...

• all malignant

• mass of abnormal cells that can grow uncontrollably

• usually benign

• always metastasizing

Any substance that is known to cause cancer is called a...

• Carcinogen

• metastasizer

• Pathogen

• Retrovirus

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Metastasis is

• the spread of cancer from one part of the body to another.
• the growth of tumors in the lungs
• cancer of the blood cells
• cancer that is found in connective tissues

Using drugs or medicines to destroy cancer cells.

• chemotherapy
• radiation therapy
• cancer surgery
• mitotic spindling

A group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth that might spread to other parts of the body

• cancer
• mutagen
• mutation
• primary tumor

Cancer is caused by, or in other words arises because of...

• missing dna fibers
• the mutation of a gene
• general unhealthyness
• all of the above

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Mutated cancer causing genes are reffered to as...

• oncogenes
• oncologists
• optometrist
• oink

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Which type of tumor is dangerous, spreads across bodily systems via blood and lymphatic systems?

• benign
• malignant

Proto-oncogenes can mutate into...

• oncogenes
• tumor suppressor genes
• DNA repair proteins

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