Powerpoint Chapter 6 (Cancer)

Question 1

Unregulated cell division forming a lump of cells with no function

Answer 1

Tumors

Question 2

doesn’t affect surrounding tissues

Answer 2

Benign tumor

Question 3

invades surrounding tissues; cancerous

Answer 3

Malignant tumor

Question 4

cells break away from a malignant tumor and start new cancers at distant locations

Answer 4

Metastasis

Question 5

Travel anywhere in the body via the circulatory system or the lymphatic system

Answer 5

Cancer cells

Question 6

Cancer cells travel anywhere in the body via:

Answer 6

Circulatory system

lymphatic system

Question 7

replicate when they shouldn’t

Answer 7

Cancer cells

Question 8

invade surrounding tissue

Answer 8

cancer cells

Question 9

move to other locations in the body

Answer 9

cancer cells

Question 10

behaviors or conditions that increase the chance of developing a disease

Answer 10

Risk factors

Question 11

carried in genes

1. mutated BRCA1 gene related to breast cancer

Answer 11

Inherited cancer risk

Question 12

Exposure to carcinogens (cancer-causing agents)

1. Human papilloma virus leads to various cancers in males and females

Answer 12

Environmental exposures

Question 13

enhance the activity of other carcinogens

Answer 13

Synergistic risk factors

Question 14

Tobacco

Alcohol

Answer 14

Synergistic risk factors

Question 15

Together, tobacco and drinking alcohol have a greater risk than each activity alone.

Answer 15

True