patho chpt 7

Question 1

parent cells

Answer 1

progenitor cells

Question 2

lack of power & RBC

Answer 2

anemia

Question 3

take living tissue for eval

Answer 3

biopsy

Question 4

cancer found in the lymph nodes

Answer 4

T cell leukemia

Question 5

loss of cell differentiation in cancerous tissue

Answer 5

anaplasia

Question 6

phases of the cell cycle

Answer 6

interphase, prophase, meta, ana, tele

Question 7

a systemic treatment that enables drugs to reach the site of the tumor as well as other sites

Answer 7

chemotherapy

Question 8

defines the differentiation potential of stem cells

Answer 8

cellular potency

Question 9

means the neurological syndrome was not caused by the tumor itself

Answer 9

paraneoplastic syndrome

Question 10

common methods for diagnosing cancer

Answer 10

staging

Question 11

development of cancer

Answer 11

carcinogenesis

Question 12

ratio of dividing cells to resting cells

Answer 12

growth fraction

Question 13

the time it takes for the total mass of cells in a tumor to double

Answer 13

doubling time

Question 14

process of cell division

Answer 14

proliferation

Question 15

tumor suppressor gene

Answer 15

p53

Question 16

cancer stem cells

Answer 16

tumor initiating cells

Question 17

a normal gene that can cause cancer if mutated

Answer 17

protoonco gene

Question 18

any substance or agent that is cancer causing

Answer 18

carcinogens

Question 19

ones entire hereditary info

Answer 19

genome

Question 20

well differentiated mass of cells

Answer 20

benign mass

Question 21

your traits - using many genes

Answer 21

polygenic inheritance

Question 22

any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome

Answer 22

autosomes

Question 23

the protein found in an organism during entire life

Answer 23

proteome