WorksheetsCancer
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which of the following correctly describes angiogenesis?
Growth of blood vessels that allows tumor cells to pass certain checkpoints in the cell cycle.
Growth of blood vessels that provides the tumor with nutrients and oxygen.
Growth of blood vessels to bring in more immune cells to the tumor
Movement of cancer cells through the body inducing the production of more red blood cells.
Which of the following best defines an oncogene?
An oncogene codes for a cell cycle control protein.
An oncogene codes for a protein that prevents the cell from undergoing apoptosis.
An oncogene codes for a mutated form of a protein that forms part of a signal transduction pathway
An oncogene is a dominantly expressed mutated gene that gives a cell a growth or survival advantage
Which of the following types of protein could be coded by a tumour-suppressor gene?
A protein that forms part of a growth factor signalling pathway.
A protein that codes for a DNA repair enzyme.
A protein that helps prevent apoptosis.
A protein that controls progression through the cell cycle.
Which of the following is characteristic of a malignant rather than a benign tumour?
Develops a blood supply.
Undergoes metastasis.
Cells divide an unlimited number of times.
Grows without needing a growth signal.
Tumour markers are
Signs of infection
Related to genetics
Chemicals that can be detected in the blood
External growths
Cancer is caused due to
Controlled mitosis
Uncontrolled mitosis
Controlled meiosis
Uncontrolled meiosis
In situ breast cancer refers to
cancer that has spread throughout the body
cancer that has spread to local lymph nodes
cancer that appears in only one place in the body
cancer that has spread to brain
Which of the following is a local treatment for breast cancer?
surgery
hormone therapy
chemotherapy
radiotherapy
What is the goal of neoadjuvant chemotherapy?
to cure the cancer
to prolong the life of patients with cancer
to shrink the tumour after surgery
to shrink the tumour before surgery
Which type of cancer treatment works best for when cancer has metastasized around the body?
Chemotherapy
Radiation Treatments
Hormones Treatments
Surgery
If cancerous cells travel throughout your body, the cells have gone through a process known as:
Metastisize
Migration
Flowing
Locomotion
Which is not a hallmark of Cancer?
Resisting cell death
Inducing angiogenesis
Inhibiting growth promoters
Enabling immortality
Any substance that causes cancer by damaging the genes
oncogen
carcinogen
pathogen
halogen
________________________ is a process of recognizing defective cells, letting them die, and replacing with normal cells.
Mitosis
Apoptosis
Oncogene
Polymerase
A mutation in this gene is like taking your foot off of the brake.
Oncogene
Tumor suppressor gene
