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Cricks Cancer
Intro to Cancer
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When cells grow, what do you call the tendency to stop growing when in contact with adjacent cells? | Contact inhibition |
| What do you call the programmed death of a cell? | apoptosis |
| Roughly how many cells are created in a body each day? | 100 billion |
| Roughly how many cells do you have total? | 100 trillion |
| What do you call a body of defective cells that do NOT go through apoptosis? | neoplasm |
| If a neoplasm is large enough to be felt (forms a lump) then you call it a ___ | ? Tumor |
| What do you call a tumor that is not growing rapidly or presenting a danger? | benign |
| What term describes the tendency to infiltrate neighboring tissues? | invasive |
| What do you call the ability of a neoplasm to shed cells that move to other parts of the body? | metastasized or metastasis |
| What do you call a neoplasm that is growing uncontrollably and infiltrating neighboring structures? | cancer |
| Cancer is actually an entire class of cellular ___ | mutations |