Handout on Cancer
WHAT CAUSES CELL PROLIFERATION?
DESCRIBE TNM SYSTEM
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BENIGN & MALIGNANT
SARCOMA VS CARCINOMA VS ADENOCARCINOMA
EXAMPLES OF SARCOMAS & CARCINOMAS
WHAT PROMOTES METASTIC SPREAD?
LIABLE, STABLE & PERMANENT CELLS
PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME?
ONCOFETAL PROTEIN MARKERS?
CELL CYCLE? WHEN IS IT MOST EFFECTED?
ANAPLASIA, DYSPLASIA, METAPLASIA
ROLE OF HEREDITY IN NEOPLASIA
CARCINOMA IN SITU, CACHEXIA, BURKITTS LYMPHOMA
DECREASED COHESIVENESS, CONTACT INHIBITION, MOBILITY
XERODERMA PIGMENTOSOM
PRODUCTIVE VS NONPRODUCTIVE VIRUSES
RNA VS DNA VIRUSES
POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
%S OF CA CAUSED BY VARIOUS THINGS, I.E. VIRUS, FOOD,
CARCINOGENS, RADIATION, ETC.
HOW DO CHEMICAL CARCINOGENS WORK?
TWO STAGE HYPOTHESIS OF CARCINOGENESIS
EFFECTS OF HOST ON CARCINOGENESIS
LAWS OF CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS
RADIATION ACTIVATED VIRUSES
HIGH POWERED ELECTRICAL CURRENTS
AFLOTOXIN
INCIDENCE VS MORTALITY
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL FACTORS- PERSON, PLACE & TIME
MOST COMMON SITES, ON THE RISE?
ONCOGENES, FIRST DISCOVERED, WHAT ARE THEY
ONCOGENES- SUPPRESSER VS ENHANCER
CAN ONE ONCOGENE CAUSE CA? IS IT LIKELY?
PAPALLOMA, HERPES & EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUSES
IS A TUMOR A CANCER?
CELL-CYCLE SPECIFIC VS CELL-CYCLE NONSPECIFIC
HOW MANY CA CELLS DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO METASTASIZE
RELATION TO EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX
LIFE SPAN OF CA CELL
RELATION TO APOPTOSIS
CA IN CHILDREN VS ADULTS
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TREATMENT, GEARED TOWARD