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Cancer Bio Flashcards

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epigenetics

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  • methylation

- histone modification

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what does it mean that cancer is epistatic?

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  • one lesion per pathway required
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nearly 100% of cancer has which inactivation

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  • p16^INK4a-Rb
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90% of cancer has which inactivation?

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  • p53
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how does inactivation occur

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  • deletion of the gene
  • point mutation fo the gene
  • silencing of the gene
  • by promoter methylation
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6
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proto-oncogene type of gene

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  • high conserved eukaryotic gene
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proto-oncogene important in

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  • cellular growth and development
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proto-oncogenes become oncogenes by

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  • over/under expression

- mutation

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cellular oncogenes involved in

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  • cellular genes involved in development and/or maintenance of malignant phenotype
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viral oncogene

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  • viral genes able to transform cells
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oncogenic mechanisms

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  • growth factors
  • signal transduction
  • cell cycle control
  • regulation of gene expression
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examples of professional tumor suppressor genes

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  • p16^INK4a

- p53

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tumor suppressors role in normal development

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  • serve only to prevent transformation
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Li-fraumeni syndrome

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  • hereditary predisposition to cancer
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role of p53 gene

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  • arrests cell cycle when DNA damage occurs

- promotes apoptosis in damaged cells

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what is the most commonly mutated gene in cancer

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  • p53
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people born with Li-Fraumeni syndrome

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  • born with one abnormal copy of p53
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18
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formation of cancer requires that

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  • a sub-population of neoplastic cells maintain the ability to self renew
  • malignant cells not die
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cellular adaptations

- can be pathologic and physiologic

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  • hyperplasia
  • hypertrophy
  • metaplasia
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abnormal growth

- always pathologic

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  • dysplasia

- neoplasia

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hyperplasia

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  • increase in cell number
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hyperplasia usually associated with

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  • increase in tissue mass (hypertrophy)
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hypertrophy

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  • increase in cell size

- production of new sub cellular components

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what is hypertrophy not

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  • hypertrophy is not swelling
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metaplasia

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  • change of one differentiated cell type into another differentiated cell type
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what type of response is metaplasia

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  • adaptive response
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reversibility of metaplasia

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  • usually reversible
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dysplasia

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  • atypical proliferation of cells with abnormal appearance and disorderly rearrangement
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dysplasia - abnormal appearance

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  • pleomorphism
  • nuclear enlargement
  • nuclear irregularity
  • hyperchromasia
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dysplasia - nuclear enlargement

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  • increased nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio
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disorderly arrangement

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  • loss of polarity
  • loss of maturation
  • abnormal location of mitotic figures
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neoplasia

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  • abnormal growth of tissue
  • excessive growth of tissue
  • uncoordinated and autonomous
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anaplastic

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  • lack of cellular differentiation
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benign neoplasms

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  • growth without invasion of spread
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growth of benign neoplasms

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  • grow slowly

- usually remain localized

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morbidity of neoplasms caused by

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  • size
  • anatomic location
  • production of hormone or other cell product
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nomenclature for benign neoplasms

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  • add -oma
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histology of benign neoplasms

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  • resembles normal counterpart
39
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paraneoplastic syndrome symptoms due to

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  • symptoms not due to local presence of neoplastic cells
  • but systemic effect
  • secretion of humoral factors by tumor cells
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paraneoplastic syndrome most commonly associated with

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  • malignant neoplasms
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cells in dysplasia

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  • abnormal appearing

- abnormal cellular architecture

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reversibility of dysplasia

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  • reversible
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carcinoma in situ

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  • dysplastic changes involving full thickness of epithelium
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cells in carcinoma in situ

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  • don’t extend beyond basement membrane
45
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carcinoma

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  • malignant cells with atypical morphology extend beyond basement membrane
46
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nomenclature for malignant neoplasms in mesenchymal cells

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  • sarcomas
47
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nomenclature for malignant neoplasms in epithelium

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  • carcinoma
48
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mixed neoplasms are called

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  • teratomas
49
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most common of solid tumors

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  • carcinomas
50
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sarcomas are more common in

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  • children

- adolescents

51
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histologic grade refers to

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  • level of differentiation
52
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high histologic grade refers to

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  • poorly differentiated
53
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anatomic stage refers to

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  • extent or spread of the tumor
54
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anatomic staging system

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  • tumor 0-4
  • nodes 0-4
  • metastasis 0+
55
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all cancers demonstrate

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  • dysregulation of proliferation
  • DNA repair
  • apoptosis and differentiation

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