Terms Flashcards
Definitions of common terms
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Immunosuppression
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Phenomenon of decreased or total lack of immune response in the body.
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Neoplasms
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Abnormal growths or tumors
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Oncology
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The study of neoplasms
4
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Benign neoplasms
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Also known as benign tumor
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Malignant neoplasm
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AKA cancer
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Carcinogenesis
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The process by which normal cells transform into cancerous cells
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Proto-Oncogenes
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A group of cells that handle the proteins necessary for cell divison.
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DNA repair genes and tumor suppressor genes
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can reverse damage in the cells
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Apoptosis
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The process that tumor suppressor genes start instructing a cell to kill itself if DNA cannot repair the defect
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Mitoisis
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Cell division
11
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What is metastasis?
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A process by which cancers cells can spread via lymph to other places in the body.
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