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Cancer Treatments

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which is false of Precision Medicine?

a)

It takes into account individual variability in genes.

b)

It allows doctors to select treatments that will work best for the patient without trial and error.

c)

Has the possibility of reduced side effects since treatments are personalized.

d)

You have to have surgery after having this type of treatment.

2.

Stem cells are _______________.

a)

used to help pinpoint where radiation therapy must be placed.

b)

unspecialized cells

c)

have the potential to develop into many different cell types

d)

primarily located in the insertions of muscles into bone

3.

A stem cell transplant includes which of the following?

a)

Use of high doses of radiation or chemotherapy to destroy diseased cells

b)

Prior to a transplant stem cells are harvested from donor cartilage

c)

Collected stem cells can be cryopreserved.

d)

The infused stem cells then move to the tissue of interest.

4.

This type of stem cell transplant uses donor cells.

a)

autologous

b)

hemitologous

c)

allogeneic

d)

autocratic

5.

This cancer treatment uses beams of intense energy to kill cancer cells

a)

chemotherapy

b)

Immunotherapy

c)

radiation therapy

d)

targeted therapy

6.

Internal radiation therapy is also known as ______________.

a)

brachytherapy

b)

internal beam therapy

c)

iodine specific therapy

d)

tachytherapy

7.

In this particular cancer treatment researchers make ___________ that can target specific antigens, like those on cancer cells. These ___________ can then be given to cancer patients to treat their specific type of cancer.

a)

vaccines

b)

T-cells

c)

cytokines

d)

antibodies

8.

In this form of immunotherapy researchers modify a sample of the patient’s T-cells in a laboratory and insert them back into the patient’s bloodstream

a)

monoclonal antibody treatment

b)

Adoptive Cell Transfer

c)

use of immune-Checkpoint Inhibitors

d)

Cytokine treatment

9.

A type of cancer surgery that will remove parts of a tumor to restore a bodily function

a)

Cryosurgery

b)

Curative surgery

c)

Debulking surgery

d)

Diagnostic surgery

10.

Which type of cancer treatment uses drugs or other substances that blocks enzymes that signal cancers to grow?

a)

Targeted therapy

b)

surgery

c)

chemo therapy

d)

precision medicine

11.

a side effect of targeted cancer therapy different from other therapies is ______.

a)

hair loss

b)

skin problems

c)

organ damage.

d)

Cancer cells can become resistant to the treatment when the tumor finds a new pathway .

12.

The goal of Targeted Therapy is to :

a)

restore any of the 3 checkpoints involved in cell regulation

b)

interfere with DNA replication

c)

block enzymes that signal cancers to grow

d)

increase the level of tumor cell apoptosis

13.

Restorative surgery : appearance :: cryosurgery : ______

a)

cold

b)

external tumors

c)

excising deep tumors

d)

inserting radioactive capsule into a tumor

14.

Two main types of hormone therapy are __________

a)

Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Selective Estrogen Receptor Degrader

b)

Leutinizing deprivation therapy and cytokine therapy

c)

Assisted cellular therapy and biopsy therapy

d)

Gonadotropic deprivation therapy and hepatic receptor therapy