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What is cancer in basic Uncontrolled cell growth that invades and destroys
terms? tissue.
Why do we find ancient Bone cancers preserve archaeologically; soft tissues
bone cancers but not decay, leaving no trace.
soft-tissue ones?
Where does the word From Greek karkinos ("crab"), describing tumour veins
"cancer" come from? spreading like legs.
What did Hippocrates Not to treat them — early surgery often made patients
advise about hidden worse.
cancers?
How did Avicenna (Ibn As a deep-rooted growth that kills surrounding tissue.
Sina) describe cancer?
Why was cancer Confusing terminology (canker, chancre) and
classification difficult in overlapping disease names.
medieval Europe?
What did Jean de Surgical removal rarely succeeded; recurrence was
Tournemire learn about common.
breast cancer?
Who coined the term Joseph Recamier (1829)
"metastasis"?
, What did Virchow and Whether cancer spread via "juice" (Virchow) or
Thiersch debate? migrating cells (Thiersch — correct).
What major invention in Roentgen's X-ray
1895 revolutionised
tumour detection?
Why did early X-ray Radiation exposure was not yet understood or
doctors get cancer? shielded
What false theory about Fibiger's claim that roundworms caused cancer
cancer won a Nobel
Prize?
How did mustard gas It destroyed white blood cells — suggesting
inspire chemotherapy? chemicals could suppress fast-growing cells
Who conducted the first Goodman and Gilman (Yale, 1943)
chemotherapy trials?
What event accelerated The WWII Bari harbour disaster exposing mustard gas
this discovery? effects.
What were the first classes Antifolates (e.g. methotrexate), vinca alkaloids, and
of chemotherapy drugs? corticosteroids.
When did combination Around 1965, to balance tumour killing with patient
chemotherapy begin? survival
Why is cancer called a It mainly affects older people; rich countries detect
disease of affluence and and treat earlier.
age?
Which cancers have the Detectable ones — breast, skin, and prostate cancers.
highest five-year survival
rates?
Why is colorectal cancer Rising rates in people under 50 → screening now
screening starting earlier? begins at age 45.
What campaigns reduced Pink Ribbon (breast), Slip-Slop-Slap (skin), and HPV
cancer rates in Australia? vaccination.
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Terms in this set (62)
What is cancer in basic Uncontrolled cell growth that invades and destroys
terms? tissue.
Why do we find ancient Bone cancers preserve archaeologically; soft tissues
bone cancers but not decay, leaving no trace.
soft-tissue ones?
Where does the word From Greek karkinos ("crab"), describing tumour veins
"cancer" come from? spreading like legs.
What did Hippocrates Not to treat them — early surgery often made patients
advise about hidden worse.
cancers?
How did Avicenna (Ibn As a deep-rooted growth that kills surrounding tissue.
Sina) describe cancer?
Why was cancer Confusing terminology (canker, chancre) and
classification difficult in overlapping disease names.
medieval Europe?
What did Jean de Surgical removal rarely succeeded; recurrence was
Tournemire learn about common.
breast cancer?
Who coined the term Joseph Recamier (1829)
"metastasis"?
, What did Virchow and Whether cancer spread via "juice" (Virchow) or
Thiersch debate? migrating cells (Thiersch — correct).
What major invention in Roentgen's X-ray
1895 revolutionised
tumour detection?
Why did early X-ray Radiation exposure was not yet understood or
doctors get cancer? shielded
What false theory about Fibiger's claim that roundworms caused cancer
cancer won a Nobel
Prize?
How did mustard gas It destroyed white blood cells — suggesting
inspire chemotherapy? chemicals could suppress fast-growing cells
Who conducted the first Goodman and Gilman (Yale, 1943)
chemotherapy trials?
What event accelerated The WWII Bari harbour disaster exposing mustard gas
this discovery? effects.
What were the first classes Antifolates (e.g. methotrexate), vinca alkaloids, and
of chemotherapy drugs? corticosteroids.
When did combination Around 1965, to balance tumour killing with patient
chemotherapy begin? survival
Why is cancer called a It mainly affects older people; rich countries detect
disease of affluence and and treat earlier.
age?
Which cancers have the Detectable ones — breast, skin, and prostate cancers.
highest five-year survival
rates?
Why is colorectal cancer Rising rates in people under 50 → screening now
screening starting earlier? begins at age 45.
What campaigns reduced Pink Ribbon (breast), Slip-Slop-Slap (skin), and HPV
cancer rates in Australia? vaccination.
