patho chpt 7 Flashcards
parent cells
progenitor cells
lack of power & RBC
anemia
take living tissue for eval
biopsy
cancer found in the lymph nodes
T cell leukemia
loss of cell differentiation in cancerous tissue
anaplasia
phases of the cell cycle
interphase, prophase, meta, ana, tele
a systemic treatment that enables drugs to reach the site of the tumor as well as other sites
chemotherapy
defines the differentiation potential of stem cells
cellular potency
means the neurological syndrome was not caused by the tumor itself
paraneoplastic syndrome
common methods for diagnosing cancer
staging
development of cancer
carcinogenesis
ratio of dividing cells to resting cells
growth fraction
the time it takes for the total mass of cells in a tumor to double
doubling time
process of cell division
proliferation
tumor suppressor gene
p53
cancer stem cells
tumor initiating cells
a normal gene that can cause cancer if mutated
protoonco gene
any substance or agent that is cancer causing
carcinogens
ones entire hereditary info
genome
well differentiated mass of cells
benign mass
your traits - using many genes
polygenic inheritance
any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
autosomes
the protein found in an organism during entire life
proteome
