Cancer

Question 1

What are the main cancer treatments you can have?

Answer 1

Surgery, Radiation Therapy, Targeted Therapy, and Chemotherapy

Question 2

Surgery

Answer 2

Chosen when cancer is caught early on its development; however not all tumours can be surgically removed.

Question 3

Radiation Therapy

Answer 3

The use of high energy radiation to destroy the cancer cells ability to reproduce.
-> gets rid of destroyed cells.
-> cancer patient may be treated with radiation alone

Question 4

Targeted Therapy

Answer 4

Uses drugs to more precisely identify and then attack cancer cells, while leaving normal healthy cells intact.

Question 5

Chemotherapy

Answer 5

The most common form of cancer treatment, which is a systematic therapy that affects the whole body by going through the bloodstream.

Question 6

a gene that stops the cell cycle until
all chromosomes have been correctly copied

Answer 6

P53 gene

Question 7

The movement of cancerous cells via the lymphatic or blood circulatory
systems to a location other than where they originate

Answer 7

Metastasis