Chp 19

Question 1

Adjuvant chemotherapy

Answer 1

Drugs given after primary therapy (surgery/radiation).

Question 2

Alkylating agents

Answer 2

Chemotherapeutic synthetic drugs that cause crosslinks and breaks in DNA to stop cells from dividing

Question 3

Anaplasia

Answer 3

Loss of differentiation of cells; reversion to a more primitive cell type.

Question 4

Antimetabolites

Answer 4

Chemotheraputic agents that block the synthesis of DNA components and prevent cells from dividing.

Question 5

Cac/o

Answer 5

Bad

Question 6

Cauter/o

Answer 6

Burn, heat

Question 7

Follicul/o

Answer 7

Small glandular sacs

Question 8

Medull/o

Answer 8

Soft, inner part

Question 9

Mut/a

Answer 9

Genetic change

Question 10

Mutagen/o

Answer 10

Causing genetic change

Question 11

Plas/o

Answer 11

Formation

Question 12

Ple/o

Answer 12

Many, more

Question 13

Prot/o

Answer 13

First

Question 14

Radi/o

Answer 14

Rays

Question 15

Sarc/o

Answer 15

Flesh, connective tissue

Question 16

Scirrh/o

Answer 16

Hard

Question 17

Xer/o

Answer 17

Dry

Question 18

Antimitotics

Answer 18

Chemotherapeutic chemicals that block the function of a protein necessary for mitosis.

Question 19

Apoptosis

Answer 19

Programmed cell death

Question 20

Brachytherapy

Answer 20

Radiotherapy that uses insertion of sealed containers into body cavities or radioactive seeds directly into the tumor

Question 21

Carcinogens

Answer 21

Agents that cause cancer

Question 22

Carcinoma

Answer 22

Cancerous tumor made up of cells of epithelial origin.

Question 23

Dedifferentiation

Answer 23

Loss of differentiation of cells

Question 24

Differentiation

Answer 24

Specialization of cells

Question 25

Electron beams

Answer 25

Low energy beams of radiation for treatment of skin/surface tumors

Question 26

Fields

Answer 26

Dimensions of the area of the body undergoing irradiation

Question 27

Fractionation

Answer 27

Giving radiation in small, repeated doses

Question 28

-blastoma

Answer 28

Immature tumor

Question 29

-plasia

Answer 29

Formation, growth

Question 30

-plasm

Answer 30

Formation, growth

Question 31

Ana-

Answer 31

Backward

Question 32

Apo-

Answer 32

Off, away

Question 33

Brachy-

Answer 33

Short (distance)

Question 34

Meta-

Answer 34

Beyond; change

Question 35

Neo-

Answer 35

New

Question 36

Tele-

Answer 36

Far

Question 37

Grading of tumors

Answer 37

Evaluating the degree of maturity of tumor cells/ degree of differentiation

Question 38

Gray

Answer 38

Unit of absorbed radiation dose

Question 39

Infiltrative

Answer 39

Extending beyond normal tissue boundries into adjacent tissues

Question 40

Mesenchymal

Answer 40

Embroyonic connective tissue

Question 41

Metastasis

Answer 41

Spread of a malignant tumor to a secondsry site

Question 42

Mitosis

Answer 42

Replication of cells

Question 43

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Answer 43

Drugs are given before primary therapy to reduce size of tumor

Question 44

Neoplasm

Answer 44

New growth; benign or malignant tumor

Question 45

Pedunculated

Answer 45

Processing a stem or stalk

Question 46

Photon therapy

Answer 46

Radiation therapy usung energy in the form of xrays/gamma rays

Question 47

Proton therapy

Answer 47

Subatomic positively charged particles produced by a cyclotron deposit a dosse of radiation at a tightly focused point in the body.

Question 48

Sarcoma

Answer 48

Cancerous tumor derived from connective or flesh tissue

Question 49

Serous

Answer 49

Having the apperance of a thin, watery fluid

Question 50

Sessile

Answer 50

Having no stem

Question 51

Simulation

Answer 51

Study using CT scan/MRI to map the area to receive treatment before radiotherpay is given

Question 52

Staging of tumors

Answer 52

System of evaluating the extent of spread of tumors