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1-Lifetime risk of getting cancer for men and women in the US - Answer-50% for men and 33% for women 2-Which cancer are men most likely to get in the US? And women? - Answer-Men are most likely to get prostate cancer Women are most likely to get breast cancer 3-What cancers are the most dead...

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BIOLOGY 316 (Study of Cancer) EXAM 1
Questions and Answers
1-Lifetime risk of getting cancer for men and women in the US - Answer-50% for men
and 33% for women

2-Which cancer are men most likely to get in the US? And women? - Answer-Men are
most likely to get prostate cancer
Women are most likely to get breast cancer

3-What cancers are the most deadly and least deadly? - Answer-Lung cancer is the
most deadly is carcinoma(skin), in which metastatic doesn't occur. (non melanoma
cancer )

4-Name the cell-types that define carcinomas, sarcomas, lymphomas, and leukemias.
Which type is most common? - Answer-Carcinomas-cells that line organ cavities that
make up different glands EXAMPLES- lung/breast/colon/bladder/prostate
Sarcomas-connected tissue EXAMPLES fat/bone/muscle
Lymphomas-lymph nodes
Leukemias-bloodstream

5-Describe and identify normal tissues, tissues undergoing hyperplasia, dysplasia, and
carcinoma in situ. What is the general progression of cancer at this tissue level? -
Answer-

6-Use the car analogy to describe the basic differences between oncogenes and tumor
suppressor gene mutations in the development of cancer. - Answer-

What is telomerase and how does it relate to the development of cancer/cell
immortality? - Answer-

What are the top three types of cancer for men? - Answer-prostate
lung
colorectal

What are the top three cancers that kill men - Answer-lung
prostate
colorectal

What are the top three types of cancer for women - Answer-breast
lung
colorectal

What are the top three cancers that kill women - Answer-lung

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