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| What does metastasis mean? |
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| What are the most common types of cancer (2)? |
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| What kinds of environmental things can damage cells and cause cancer? |
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| chemicals, radiation, free-radicals, superoxides, others |
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| What part of the chromosomes may be linked to aging? |
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| What is the #1 fatal cancer? |
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| What is a cancer of connective tissue? |
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| How do endostatin and angiostatin treat cancer? |
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| Prevent blood vessels from supplying cancer cells |
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| What is permanent transformation? |
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| Once a cell transforms into a cancer it is permanent |
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| Cancer of the bone marrow |
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| Cancer of the body linings such as skin |
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| A non-cancerous growth: does not replace normal tissue, does not spread |
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| What is a malignant tumor? |
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| Cancer cell growth: spreads and replaces normal body tissue |
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| Why can normal repairing of body tissues cause cancer? |
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| During cell repair mutations can occur: cancerous cells |
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| Why are you more likely to get cancer as you age? |
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| Because you the longer you live the more cell divisions take place (chance for mutation), damage from environment, more oncogenes building up/turning on |
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| Three common treatments for cancer |
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| surgery, chemotherapy, radiation |
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