WorksheetsCancer Treatments
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which is false of Precision Medicine?
It takes into account individual variability in genes.
It allows doctors to select treatments that will work best for the patient without trial and error.
Has the possibility of reduced side effects since treatments are personalized.
You have to have surgery after having this type of treatment.
Stem cells are _______________.
used to help pinpoint where radiation therapy must be placed.
unspecialized cells
have the potential to develop into many different cell types
primarily located in the insertions of muscles into bone
A stem cell transplant includes which of the following?
Use of high doses of radiation or chemotherapy to destroy diseased cells
Prior to a transplant stem cells are harvested from donor cartilage
Collected stem cells can be cryopreserved.
The infused stem cells then move to the tissue of interest.
This type of stem cell transplant uses donor cells.
autologous
hemitologous
allogeneic
autocratic
This cancer treatment uses beams of intense energy to kill cancer cells
chemotherapy
Immunotherapy
radiation therapy
targeted therapy
Internal radiation therapy is also known as ______________.
brachytherapy
internal beam therapy
iodine specific therapy
tachytherapy
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.
vaccines
T-cells
cytokines
antibodies
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
monoclonal antibody treatment
Adoptive Cell Transfer
use of immune-Checkpoint Inhibitors
Cytokine treatment
A type of cancer surgery that will remove parts of a tumor to restore a bodily function
Cryosurgery
Curative surgery
Debulking surgery
Diagnostic surgery
Which type of cancer treatment uses drugs or other substances that blocks enzymes that signal cancers to grow?
Targeted therapy
surgery
chemo therapy
precision medicine
a side effect of targeted cancer therapy different from other therapies is ______.
hair loss
skin problems
organ damage.
Cancer cells can become resistant to the treatment when the tumor finds a new pathway .
The goal of Targeted Therapy is to :
restore any of the 3 checkpoints involved in cell regulation
interfere with DNA replication
block enzymes that signal cancers to grow
increase the level of tumor cell apoptosis
Restorative surgery : appearance :: cryosurgery : ______
cold
external tumors
excising deep tumors
inserting radioactive capsule into a tumor
Two main types of hormone therapy are __________
Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Selective Estrogen Receptor Degrader
Leutinizing deprivation therapy and cytokine therapy
Assisted cellular therapy and biopsy therapy
Gonadotropic deprivation therapy and hepatic receptor therapy
