APP Cancer I (from notes) Flashcards
Neoplasia
- abnormal growth of tissue resulting from loss of responsiveness to growth control signals
Proto-Oncogene (vs. oncogene)
- encode proteins which normally stimulate call proliferation
- altered forms of proto-oncogenes are oncogenes
Carcinoma
Cancer of epithelial origin
EX: lung, breast, prostate, bladder
Sarcoma
Malignant neoplasms of mesenchymal origin
EX: Fat, bone, muscle
Prefix meaning: hemangio
blood vessels
Prefix meaing: adeno
gland
Hyperplasia
increase in the number of cells
Dysplasia
- Abnormal tissue architecture
- Cells retain their function
- Some cellular and nuclear changes leading to loss of cell uniformity
Anaplasia
- Undifferentiated cells
- Variable in size and shape
- Numerous and atypical mitoses
- Lack of organized tissue architecture
Rhabdomyosarcoma is a tumor of?
Skeletal muscle malignant tumor
Benign
- Well-differentiated cells with preserved specialized features of the parent cells
- Usually well demarcated. Often encapsulated masses
- NO invasion of the surrounding tissue
- No distant metases
Malignant
- Lack of differentiation, anaplasia
- locally invasive, infiltrating
- Frequently present in distant metastases
Normal Cell Growth
- Bone Marrow myeloblasts
- Immune cells
- Epidermal cells
- Epithelial cells
- Regenerating tissues
- cell division TIGHTLY regulated by both growth promothing and inhibitory regulators
- Usually cell damage or disruptions of cell cycle leads to cell death (apoptosis)
Features of Cancer Cells
- self-sufficiency in growth signals
- insensitivity to growth-inhibitory signals
- evasion of apoptosis
- limitless replicative potential
- sustained angiogenesis
- ability to invade and metastasize
- Evasion of host immune response
Cell Growth Regulation involces these factors (5)
- Growth factors (PDGF, EGF)
- GF Receptors (Tyrosine kinase, EGFR - ERBB1, ERBB2 (HER2))
- Signal-Transducing proteins
- Transcription factors (change Gene expression)
- Cell cycle check points
Oncogene
- altered forms of proto-oncogenes
- sustained gain-of-function alterations in cancers
3 mechanisms of Gain-of-Function Alterations
- Point mutations
- Chromosomal rearrangements
- Gene amplifications
Mechanisms of oncogene activation
1) multiple copies of oncogene (called?)
2) gene amplification
3) point mutation
4) chromosomal translocation leading to overexpression
How can Chromosomal translocation cause oncogene activation?
- oncogene can be traslocated adjacent to a gene that is constituitivelly on (change in transcriptional control elements)
- or translocated to create a noval-fusion gene to create a Chimeric Protein