Cancer Immunology Flashcards
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what is leukemia?
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Myogenous or lymphocytic in the early stage of development in bone marrow
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what is lymphoma?
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Blood cells in their later stage of development outside bone marrow spread through lymphatics to lymph nodes
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what is myeloma?
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Full differentiated plasma cells that mutated - produce antibodies -migrate back to bone marrow and form multiple lesions
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what can promote cancer?
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inflammatory responses
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why does chronic inflammation cause cancer?
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- Increases cellular stress signals
- Can lead to genotoxic stress
- Increasing mutation rates in cells
- Growth factors/cytokines released by cells often induce proliferation
- Inflammation is proangiogenic
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