Terms

Question 1

Spread of cancerous cells via lymph and blood to sites far from original location

Answer 1

Metastatic carcinoma

Question 2

Loss of cellular differentiation and function

Answer 2

Anaplasia

Question 2

Indirect effects of cancers (ex: metabolism disturbances)

Answer 2

Paraneoplastic syndromes

Question 3

Aggressive proliferation with tissue boundary breaches (especially basement membrane).

Answer 3

Invasive carcinoma

Question 5

Genes that prevent malignancy. Both allele must be affected to see malignancy. Can be thought of as a loss of function alteration.

Answer 5

Tumor suppressor gene

Question 6

Increase in size of tissue of organ due to increase in size of the component cells

Answer 6

Hypertrophy

Question 7

Aggressive proliferation, but without invasion into basement membrane

Answer 7

Carcinoma in situ

Question 8

Change of tissue from normal form to abnormal form

Answer 8

Metaplasia

Question 9

Gene that can cause malignancy in a cell

Answer 9

Oncogene

Question 10

New/abnormal formation of tissue (tumor or growth) with no useful function. (Neoplasia=growth, neoplasm=cells

Answer 10

Neoplasia/neoplasm

Question 11

Abnormal development of tissue

Answer 11

Dysplasia