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17 Cards in this Set
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Benign Tumor
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a tumor that doesn't come back and doesn't spread to other parts of the body, non-cancerous
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Malignant Tumor
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cancerous tumor
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Metastasis
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when cancerous tumors have access to a blood stream and spread throughout the body.
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Radiation
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when high-energy waves (like x-rays) kill cancer cells
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Chemotherapy
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drugs that are used to kill cancer
(examples: antimetabolities inerfere with w/ DNA replication, genotoxic damages DNA) |
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Angiogenesis
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how cancer spreads: formation of blood cells towards a tumor, what encourages the growth of blood vessels
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Oncogenes/ protooncogenes
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onocogenes: promotes cell division
oncogenes: mutated proto-oncogenes |
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Carcinogens
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any substance or radiation that is an agent directly involved in the promotion of cancer
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Surgery
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a removal, by incision, of a tumor
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Mutations
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a permanent change in DNA or RNA
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Gene mutation
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a mutation in the squence of a gene
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Point mutations
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causes frame shift. four effects:
1.diff. protein made 2.no change in protein 3.protein with no function 4.no protein made |
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Chromosomal mutation
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mutation of an entire chromosome (deleted or duplicated)
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Duplication
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when a chromosome or nucleotide is duplicated
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Deletion
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when a chromosome or nucleotide is deleted
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Inversion/insertion
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when a chromosome or nucleotide is inserted
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Translocation
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a chromosome abnormality caused by rearrangement of parts between nonhomologous chromosomes
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