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Mechanisms Of Oncogenesis Flashcards

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What is cancer the name for?

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A group of diseases characterised by:
Abnormal cell proliferation
Tumour formation
Invasion of neighbouring normal tissue
Metastasis to form new tumours at distant sites
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Where do carcinomas originate?

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Epithelial cells

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Where do sarcomas derive from?

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Bone or muscle tissues

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Where do adenosarcomas originate from?

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Glandular tissue

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What are the (many!) hallmarks of cancer?

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Evading growth supressors
Avoiding immune destruction
Enabling replicative immortality
Tumour-promoting inflammation
Activating invasion and mutation
Resisting cell death
Deregulating cellular energetics
Sustaining proliferative signalling
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Why is cancer more prevelant the older you get?

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Longer you live the more time there is for DNA to accumulate mutations that may lead to cancer

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What do germline carcinogenic mutations cause?

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An increased risk of developing cancer

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What is cell proliferation caused by?

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Growth factors
Cytokines
Hormones

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What growth factors is cell proliferation caused by?

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EGF, PDGF

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What cytokines is cell proliferation caused by?

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Growth hormones, interleukin

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What are proto-onco genes?

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Normal genes that can be activated to become oncogenes

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What are oncogenes?

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Proto-oncogenes that have been mutated in a way that leads to signals that cause uncontrolled growth

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What do tumour supressor genes do?

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Inhibit both growth and tumour formation

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When do tumour supressor genes act?

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In phase G1 of the cell cycle

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What are the three assumptions that multistage carcinogenesis relies on?

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Malignant transformation of a single cell is sufficient to give rise to a tumour

Any cell in a tissue is likely to be transformed as any other of the same type

Once a malignant cell is generated the mean time to tumour detection is generally constant

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What are the names of the 5 models of carcinogenesis?

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Chemical carcinogens
Genome instability
Non-genotoxic
Darwinian
Tissue organisation
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What is the chemical carcinogen model of carcinogenesis?

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Chemicals can alter initiation, promotion and progression to induce their carcinogenic effects

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What is knudsons hypothesis for hereditary cancers based on?

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Two-hit hypothesis

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What is the two hit hypothesis?

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At least two events are necessary for carcinogenesis and the cell with the first event must survive in the tissue long enough to sustain a second event

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What are non-genotoxic modulators of risk?

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Don’t seem to act through a structural change in DNA but rather through functional changes including epigenetic events

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What is the mutation and selection model of clonal expansion?

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Sequential accumulation of mutations due to carcinogen exposure
Tumour cells selected for ability to grow and invade
Selection includes resistance to therapy

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What is the somatic mutation theory?

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Cancer comes from a single somatic cell that has accumulated multiple DNA mutations

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What is the tissue organisation field theory?

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Carcinogenic agents destroy the normal tissue architecture that disrupt cell-cell signalling and comprising genomic integrity

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What are the classes of carcinogens?

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Chemical
Physical
Heritable
Viral

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What are some examples of chemical carcinogens?

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Aromatic amines
Nitrosamines
Alkylating agents
Carbamates
Halogenated compounds
Azo dyes
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What are examples of physical carcinogens?

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Radiation and asbestos

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What are some viral carcinogens?

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Hepatitis B

Epstein Barr

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What does the ames test test for?

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Chemical carcinogens

29
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What is the ames test?

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Test to determine the mutagenic activity of chemicals by observing whether they cause mutations in sample bacteria

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What is the ames test method?

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Add rat liver extract to a salmonella strain that requires histidine
Add a possible mutagen and spread over an agar plate that lacks histidine

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In the ames test, what will happen if a mutagen is present?

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Lots of colonies that have grown even in the absence of histidine

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How do physical carcinogens work?

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Act by imparting energy into biological material

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What is the primary physical agent?

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Radiation

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How does radiation cause carcinogenesis?

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Breaking DNA and causing pyrimidine dimers

35
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What are heritable carcinogens generally?

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Monogenic (mutation of a single gene)

36
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What type of genes are mutated in heritable carcinogens?

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Genes involved in controlling function of the cell cycle or the repair of DNA damage

37
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What does a deficiency in DNA repair cause?

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More DNA damages to occur -> inc risk for cancer

38
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What DNA repair defect syndromes predispose you to cancer?

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Ataxia telangiectasia
Blooms syndrome
Fanconis anaemia
Li-fraumeni syndrome
Lynch type II
Xeroderma pigmentosum
39
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What chromosomal abnormality syndromes predispose you to cancer?

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Downs syndrome

Klinefelters syndrome

40
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What is the mutated gene (and what does it code for) in ataxia telangiectasia?

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ATM gene

Codes for a serine/threonine kinase that is recruited and activated by dsDNA breaks leading to cell cycle arrest, DNA repair and apoptosis

41
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What is ataxia telangiectasia?

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A disorder of neuromotor function and dilation of blood vessels

42
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What types of cancer does ataxia telangiectasia predispose you to?

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Lymphoma
Leukaemia
Breast cancer

43
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What does blooms syndrome cause?

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Short stature and skin rash after sun exposure

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What gene is mutated in blooms syndrome (and what does it code for)?

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BLM gene

Codes for a member of the RecQ helicase family that helps maintain the structure and integrity of DNA

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What types of cancer does blooms syndrome predispose you to?

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Skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma

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What are the mutations that cause lynch type?

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MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2

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What does lynch type predispose you to?

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Colorectal cancer

48
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What are the properties of tumour-genic viruses?

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Stable association with cells
Not kill cells
Evade immune surveillance of infected cells

49
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How can viruses have a stable association with cells?

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Chromosomal integration and changes in the epigenomes

50
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How do viruses not kill cells?

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Suppress the viral lytic cycle

51
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How do viruses evade the immune surveillance of infected cells?

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Immune supression and viral antigens not being expressed at cell surface

52
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What cancer does epstein-barr virus cause?

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Burkits lymphoma

53
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What cancer does papilloma virus cause?

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Cervical carcinoma

54
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What cancer does hepatitis B and C virus cause?

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Hepatoma

55
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What cancer does HTLV-1 virus cause?

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Adult T-cell leukaemia

Lymphoma

56
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What are the three Es of cancer immunoediting?

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Elimination, equilibrium and escape

Molecular Basis Of Disease/ Microbiology And Immunology (57 decks)

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