Questions And Verified Answers
Most common type of cancer in adult men - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Prostate
Lung
Colon & rectum
Most common types of cancer in adult women - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Breast
Lung
Colon & rectum
Highest mortality rates adult men - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Lung
Colon rectum
Prostate
Highest mortality rate adult women - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Lung
Colon rectum
Breast
,Most common types of cancer in pediatric patients -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Leukemia
Brain
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Highest Race incidence-male - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔African American
Highest Race incidence-female - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔White
Carcinoma - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Begins in the skin or
tissues covering or lining internal organs
Sarcoma - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Begins in bone,
cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective
tissues
Leukemia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Begins in blood
forming tissue such as bone marrow and large amounts of
immature cells are released into circulation
, Lymphoma and myeloma - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Begin
in the cells of the immune system
Central nervous system cancers - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Begin in the brain and spinal cord
Benign - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Encapsulated,
noninvasive, HIGHLY DIFFERENTIATED, mitosis rare, SLOW
GROWTH, NO METASTISIS
Malignant - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Nonencapsulated,
invasive, POORLY DIFFERENTIATED, mitosis common,
RAPID GROWTH, METASTASES
Carcinogen - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Something that
causes cancer
Carcinogenesis - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Initiation
Promotion
Progression
Metastasis