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Cancer - Lecture 25 Flashcards

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What was the leading cause of death in 2007?

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Cancer; it surpassed cardiovascular disease

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Most three common diseases in Canada

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1) Heart Disease
2) Diabetes
3) Cancer

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Rates of Lung Cancer

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On the decline because smoking rates down

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What is cancer?

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Out of control growth of cells spreading into new areas of the body

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What percentages of cancers are preventable and how?

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50% of cancers are preventable through change in lifestyle

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What’s different about these new cells that are growing?

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No longer behave like the original host cell.

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Malignant?

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Cancerous cells

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Benign

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Non-cancerous cells

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Characteristics of Benign Tumours

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Slow growing; non-invading cells

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Characteristics of Malignant Tumours

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Grow fast or slow; spread to other organs and tissues

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Metastasese?

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Spreading of the cancer cells

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Can Benign Tumours Metastasize?

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No; they stay in their own capsule. If it spreads it’s cancer.

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The medical term for cancer

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Malignant Neoplasm

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Malignant Neoplasm?

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Growth and spread of abnormal cells that don’t look like regular cells.

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How is the type of cancer named?

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Cancer is named based on where the neoplasm (abnormal cancerous cells) originated from not where it spread to.

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Most common cancers that metastasize?

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Lung, colorectal, breast and prostate.

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What is Hyperplasia?

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Growth of cells in localized area. Not yet considered cancer, but it’s caused by mutation.

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What is Mutation?

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When something goes wrong when cells replicate

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What is Atypical Hyperplasia?

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Very unusual hyperplasia; a second mutation

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Point Mutation?

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A certain trigger for that mutation; smoking, drinking, etc.

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Does Atypical Hyperplasia mean cancer?

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Not yet cancer, but pretty close.

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Carcinoma

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Basically another term for saying cancer under the microscope

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Carcinoma in Situ?

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Cells are contained; no longer look like host cell and can become cancerous.

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Can you do anything at the carcinoma in situ stage?

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Because cells are growing inward there’s an opportunity to cut the abnormal cells out.

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Microinvasive?

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Cells have broken out of contained region and can now metastasize and replicate

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What to do once in Microinvasive stage?

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Chemotherapy, drugs; only delays death not permanent cure.

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What’s the trigger for cancer?

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Genetics; shift or damage in genetic code causes a spread.

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Oncogenes?

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Genes involved in normal cell growth become mutated (genes of cancerous cells) and replicate and spread abnormal cells.

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Tumour Supressor Genes

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Slow down cancer but DNA changes make the genes lead to uncontrollable cell growth.

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What is a Tumour Microenvironment?

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Tumour gets it’s own blood supply and nutrients in order to support replication and spreading

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What does the Tumour Microenvironment have to stop it

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Killer T-cells.

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32
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How does the Immune System interact with Cancer?

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Side effects of cancer weaken immune system.

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How do cancer treatments help immune system?

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If the immune system can’t catch the cancer cells, the treatments can eliminate them.

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How do our genes affect our response to cancer

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Most people have genes that can easily defeat cancer that shows up, but others are non-responsive meaning they can’t fight it off

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What does having genes that have no response to cancer mean when doing cancer treatment?

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Genes that don’t respond to cancer means they don’t respond to chemotherapy either.

36
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What determines our response to cancer cells?

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Our genetic background in cancer.

37
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What are some onco causing agents?

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Heredity, UV, Chemicals, Viruses, Smoking, Cells dividing

38
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Dysplastic cells?

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1 or 2 benign mutation cells that are on the way to becoming malignant (Atypical Hyperplasia)

39
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What region of abnormal cell growth is considered stage 1-4

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Carcinoma in situ and Invasive Cancer.

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What is a sign of stage 4 cancer?

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Cancer has spread into the bloodstream

41
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Stage 0/1 of Cancer

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Cancer cells are present but it’s localized to a small area.

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Stage 2 of Cancer

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Cancer grows but doesn’t spread

43
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What’s the difference in stage 0/1 and 2

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Size difference in cells.

44
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What stage does the cancer cells start to get a blood supply

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Stage 2

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Stage 3 of Cancer

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Cancer gets larger and can spread to lymph nodes or other tissues

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Stage 4

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Cancer leaves tumour and metastasizes in different organs and lymph nodes and bloodstream.

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What are lymph nodes and how do they play a role in cancer?

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Lymph nodes contain white blood cells that try to fight off the cancer; generally fails and tends to metastasize in the lymphs.

48
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Risk Factors for Skin Cancer

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  • Fair Skin, Light eyes or fair hair
  • History of sunburn
  • Family history of melanoma
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How can you tell if a mole is skin cancer or not

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If it lacks the circular symmetry.

50
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What does having a lot of skin tags indicate

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People with a lot of skin tags are likely unable to have genes that fight off mutations.

51
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Where does breast cancer start in?

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Commonly in the ducts, sometimes in the lobules.

52
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What hormone fuels breast cancer?

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Estrogen

53
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Ductal Carcinoma in situ

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Abnormal growth of cells in ducts that have not yet spread is treatable

54
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Invasive Ductal Carcinoma %

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80% of cancer originating here.

55
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Invasive Lobular Carcinoma %

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15% of cancer originating here.

56
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Triple Negative Cancer

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More aggressive type of breast cancer

57
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What’s bad about Triple Negative Cancer

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Does not react to hormone replacement or radiation.

58
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Mutation of BRCA1 Gene

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Does not allow to fight off breast cancer

59
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Each stage of cancer predicts what?

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The likelihood of survival; decreases as you move to a new stage.

60
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Treatment costs?

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The cost of treatment increases as your survival rate goes down.

61
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Who is at risk?

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2/5 Canadians develop cancer during lifetime

62
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How does age impact risk of cancer

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The longer you live the likelier chance you have of developing cancer; exposure to toxins

63
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Number of new cases of cancer peaks at what age?

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80

64
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When should cancer be screened for if new diagnosis peaks at age 80

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Start screening at 40.

65
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The most common Cancer for Females and Males

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Breast and Prostate respectively.

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*Cancers with the biggest death rates

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Brain, Lung, Prostate, Breast, Pancreatic

67
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Seven Warning Signs of Cancer

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C.A.U.T.I.O.N

68
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C in caution

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Change in Bowel Movements

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A in Caution

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A sore that doesn’t heal

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U in Caution

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Unusual bleeding or discharge

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T in Caution

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Thickening of lump in breast, testis, or elsewhere

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I in Caution

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Indigestion or difficulty swallowing

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O in Caution

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Obvious Change in wart or mole

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N in Caution

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Nagging cough or hoarseness

75
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What lifestyle factors are contributing to cancer risk

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Unsafe sex, alcohol, smoking,

76
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How does Exercise prevent cancer?

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Because cancer cells hate immune cells, exercising increases our immune system health to fight back.

77
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What cancers are likely to be prevented by exercise?

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Colorectal Cancer, Lung Cancer, Endometrial and Prostate.

78
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How many METS (energy expenditure above RMR) per week decreases cancer risk

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80 MET Minutes/wk

79
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What are some cancer treatments

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  • Hormone Therapy (Blocking estrogen in breast)
  • Surgery
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation
  • Chemotherapy
  • Targeted Therapy
  • Radiation Therapy
  • Immunotherapy

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