NUR 213 Cancer
- the word cancer is derived from
Answer the greek word for crab, karkinoma
- malignant tumor is referred to as a
Answer neoplasm, meaning new growth
- cancer is
- the most common cancers include
- approximately of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point
Answer disease in which abnormal cell divides without control and are able to invade other tissues
Answer breast cancer, lung and bronchus cancer, prostate cancer, colon and rectum cancer, melanoma of the skin, bladder, non-hodgkin lymphoma, kidney and renal pelvis cancer and liver cancer
during their lifetimes
Answer 39.5%
- as the overall cancer death rate has declined
- cell cycle
- normal cell cycle
Answer the number of cancer survivors has increased
Answer sequence of growth stages that a cell moves through mitosis and regeneration
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- cancer cell cycle 1 / 3
Answer
- during the cancer cell cycle there is no
- hyperplasia
Answer rest period, instead cells do not stop dividing
Answer differentiincrease in number of cells
- dysplasia
Answer abnormal development
- cancer tissue changes
Answer
- *benign tumor characteristics
- *malignant tumor characteristics
- *differentiation
Answer grows slowly, not invasive, well demarcated, well differentiated, do not metastasize
Answer grows rapidly, invasive and infiltrating, poor- ly differentiated, can spread distantly (metastasis)
Answer cancer cells resemble normal cell structurally and functionally
- *anaplasia
Answer lack of differentiation
- *benign tumors are named according to the
Answer tissues from which they arise from and include the suffix "-oma" 2 / 3
- *benign tumors affecting the brain
Answer can be life-threatening and still need treatment
- *lipoma
Answer fatty tissue benign tumor
- *leiomyoma
Answer smooth muscle benign tumor
- *meningioma
Answer meningeal tissue of the brain
- *benign tumors may to cancer
Answer progress to
- *in situ
Answer in its original place
- *carcinoma in situ (CIS)
- *there is a disagreement over whether CIS should be
- *malignant tumors are named according to
Answer pre invasive epithelial malignant tumors of glandular or epithelial origin that have not broken through the basement membrane or invaded the surrounding stroma (surrounding capsule of connective tissue)
Answer classified as cancer
Answer the tissues from which they arise
- *carcinoma
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