CNBY Exam 3

12% of cancers worldwide are linked to?

viruses

80% of cervical cancer cases have been linked to this virus?

HPV

________ vaccines are a type of immunotherapy in which the cells are removed from the patient, are loaded with antigen from the tumor in the lab, and injected back into the same patient.

Dendritic Cell

Cisplatin is this type of chemotherapy:

alkylating agent

For disgnostic purposes, a biopsy is almost always necessary to confirm cancer diagnosis by a pathologist. Which type of biopsy uses a needle to drain fluid and remove potential cancer cells?

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy

Imatinib, uses to treat patients with CML, is an example of a(an)?

targeted therapy

Inhibition of _____, prevents the cell's ability to relieve the torsional strain in DNA, generated in the DNA structure during replication and transcription.

topoisomerase

Methotrexate, a decoy to folate, is this type of chemotherapy:

anti-metabolite

On a mammogram image of the breast, dense tissue, such as connective and glandular tissue or tumor appear ___?

white

Paclitaxel is this type of chemotherapy:

microtubule inhibitor

Phase 2 clinical trial evaluate:

efficacy

Spices such as ____ have demonstrated strong anti-cancer activities in research reports.

Curcumin

This detection method is used to determine the cause of a symptom:

diagnostic

Visual detection of the skin cancer acral lentiginous melanoma are typically found in this area:

nailbed

What cancer has not been linked to alcohol consumption?

pancreatic

What is a type of internal radiation therapy?

brachytherapy

What is implicated in clinical trials to eliminate bias in group assignments?

randomization

What type of MRI image illuminates the fluid or water in the ventricles and other areas of the brain or other organs?

T2 weighted

What type of radiation therapy is common for patients with thyroid cancer?

systemic therapy

Which drug is used to treat hormone sensitive cancers?

Tamoxifen

Which imaging detection method uses narrow x-rays beams that rotate around the body to creat cross-sectional images?

Computer Tomography (CT)

Which type of ultrasound image provides doppler images of blood flow (speed and direction)?

functional ultrasound

Who discovered the first x-rays?

Wilhelm Rontgen

Who fathered the concept of radical surgery?

William Halsted

Who was the first to treat a breast cancer patient with x-rays to shrink the tumor?

Emil Grubbe