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Aetiology of Cancer and Neoplasms I Flashcards

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What is one defining feature of Cancer?

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Rapid creation of abnormal cells that grow beyond usual boundaries

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What is the spreading of Cancer reffered to as?

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Metastasis

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What are Malignant Neoplasms?

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Carcinoma in Situ and cancer

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What is the difference with a Benign Tumour in terms of spreading?

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Dont metastasize, remain encapsulated by connective tissue fibrous sheath

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What are the 5 main groups of Cancer?

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Carcinoma - skin
Lymphoma - Lymph
Leukaemia - blood
Sarcomas- connective tissue
CNS tumours - brain and spinal cord
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6
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How do Benign tumours appear microscopically?

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Innocent, tumour staying localised and remains encapsulated

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What are Malignant tumours?

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Referred to as cancer, can invade and destroy structures, migrate to sites as they metastasize

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What type of Benign tumour would Glands have suffix of?

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Adenoma

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9
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What type of Benign tumour would Surfaces have suffix of?

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Papilloma

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10
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What type of Benign tumour would Mucous surfaces have suffix of?

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Polyp

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What type of Benign tumour would Hollow masses have suffix of?

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Cysadenoma

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12
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Where are Sarcoma cells in malignant tumours derived from?

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Mesenchyme

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13
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Where are Carcinoma cells in malignant tumours derived from?

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Epithelia

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14
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What 2 Tumours are definitely malignant?

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Melanoma and Lymphoma

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15
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Why are Cancers bad for us?

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Local tissue destruction
Obstruction/compression
Hormonal malregulation

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16
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How are Cancers classified?

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Based on grade - how close cells resemble tissue of origin

Stage - how far spread from nidus

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17
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What is TNM in the common staging system?

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Tumour size
Nodes involves
Metastasis

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18
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Why is Staging import?

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For treatment and to factor 5 year survival rate

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19
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What test is used to Specify Tumours?

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PAP test

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20
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What is a Neoplasm?

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A mass formed by autonomous proliferation of cells or new growth

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21
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What does Abnormal proliferation of cells result in?

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Neoplasm or tumour

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22
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Are neoplasms malignant?

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Not all e.g uterine fibroids

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23
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What is Cell division dependant on?

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Signals and Sensors

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24
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What happens of signals or sensors become damaged?

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Cell division is unregulated can result in tumour

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25
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What are the 3 Main types of Body cells during cell division?

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Cells that never divide
Cells that retain ability to divide but dont
Cells that routinely divide and can alter rate of division

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26
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How do Cells duplicate in a Eukaryotic cell?

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Meiosis

Mitosis

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27
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What are the 4 Phases of Cell cycle?

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G1
S phase
G2
M phase

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28
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What happens in G1?

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High rate metabolism, proteins synthesis, organelles duplicate and centriole replicates

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29
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What happens in S phase?

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DNA replicated, synthesis of new histones and assembly of new chromatin

30
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What happens in G2 phase?

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Synthesis of enzymes and proteins, replicate of centrioles done, transport

31
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What happens in M phase?

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Mitosis and splitting of genome

32
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What are 2 critical points for dividing cell

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G1/S boundary - dna synthesis

G2/m boundary - mitosis

33
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What happens to cells that fail to undergo mitosis?

34
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What are the important factors that regulate entry of cell in S phase?

35
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What allows proper functioning of Cdk 2?

36
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What allows proper functioning of Cdk4,6?

37
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What do growth factors activate and produce?

38
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What does Cyclin D activate?

39
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What does Cdk 4 do?

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Phosphorylates pRband prevents inactivation of E25-1

40
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What does E2F-1 do?

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Binds with enhancer sequences activating transcription for dna synthesis

41
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What happens to these regulations once the S phase begins?

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pRB is dephosphorylated to prevent further rounds of DNA replication Cyclin D destroyed

42
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In the G2/M phase what protein kinase is present?

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Cdk 1 With Cyclin B

43
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What does Cyclin B do?

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Cell switch - modifies proteins
Sets in motion a sequence of changes
Activated only at G2/M boundary for mitosis

44
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Post mitosis what happens to inactive heterodimer?

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Phosphorylated at threonine 14, tyrosine 15

45
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At the G2/M phase what removes phosphates?

46
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What is Wee1?

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Phosphorylation to ensure complete inactivation adding 2 phosphates to Cdk1 and thrty14,15

47
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What does WEE1 prevent binding of?

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ATP to Cdk1 - first step of phosphorylation of other proteins

48
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What transcription factor activates gene coding?

49
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In non-dividing cells why is E2F-1 inhibited?

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Bound to protein pRb

50
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What are 3 signals that lead to arrest of cell growth?

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Mitogen withdrawal, Loss of adhesion, Contact inhibition

51
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What 2 CKI’s are inhibited to prevent DNA synthesis?

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P16 ink4a P27kip1

52
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What is P53?

A

Tumour surpressor gene found on chr 17 involved with dna repair

53
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What does Increased conc of P53 activate?

A

DNA repair

54
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What inhibits G1 CDK’s?

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p21 cipi1 to prevent replication of defective DNA

55
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What is Apoptosis?

A

Programmed cell death

56
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What is Apoptosis characterised by?

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Cell shrinkage, Cell contents in blebs, Chopping up DNA, Secretion of cytokines

57
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What is the Extrinsic pathway?

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Instructed death - viral infection

58
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What is the Intrinsic pathway?

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Default death - absence of growth factors

59
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What is stress activated apoptosis?

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Direct activation of mitochondria and protein kinase P38

60
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What is Senescence?

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Irreversible cell cycle arrest

61
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Whatr is replicative senscence?

A

Telomere dysfunction

62
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What is stress induced senscence?

A

DNA damage p16

63
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What is oncogene induced senescene?

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Oncogene activation p53

64
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What is replication stress induced senescence?

A

Haemophiatic stem cells

65
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What is developmental senescence?

A

Embryogensis p21

66
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What is cell-cell fusion?

A

Placental syncitiotrophoblast

67
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What are telomeres?

A

Chr capping function, prevents ends of chr from seen as double stranded breaks

68
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What is telomere shortening?

A

DNA polymerase cant lengthen terminal section

69
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What is angiogenesis?

A

Own blood vessels for blood supply to cancer growth

70
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What growth factors switch angiogenic factors on?

A

VEGFR , bFGF

71
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What factors switch of anti-angiogenic factors?

A

Delta like ligand 4

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