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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Farber was determined to make people understand what?

2. Orman was diagnosed with what?

3. __________ trial and error continued.

4. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.

5. Albert Lasker was diagnosed with colon cancer and eventually died. Farber was also diagnosed with a type of colon cancer but survived. The more personal brushes with cancer did what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the 21st anniversary of the Jimmy Fund significant?

2. How is cancer a total disease? How is this important?

3. Describe Min Chiu Li's work. Why did others believe further treatment was not necessary?

4. How could this battle regarding surgery be ended?

5. What is meant by the "smiling oncologist?"

6. Describe the New York Times letter to Richard Nixon. How could this tactic be useful today?

7. Describe the drug and cancer lists of Canellas and Frei. How is this significant?

8. How was this letter to Richard Nixon significant at the time?

9. What were the two major arguments regarding current cancer treatments? Why?

10. What was the significance of using MOPP in the treatment of breast cancer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The late 1940s and 1950s brought the world a great number of new pharmaceuticals.

Part 1) What are four of these pharmaceuticals? What is the purpose of these pharmaceuticals? How is this growth in medicine significant?

Part 2) How have we been affected by these new pharmaceuticals? How different would the field of medicine be today if it were not for these new medicines?

Part 3) What problems have these new medicines caused? What issues must we now deal with in which these new types of medicine are at least partially to blame? How might these problems change the world of medicine yet again?

Essay Topic 2

In 1775, Percival Pott noticed a shocking number of his patients suffered from scrotal cancer.

Part 1) Why had this increase occurred? Why were many of cases such as these ignored? What does this say about society at this time? How does this lead to studies into the effects of tobacco and cigarettes?

Part 2) When was it finally determined that tobacco and cigarettes cause lung cancer? Why did it take so long? Why is cigarette smoking still allowed, even though it is known that it causes cancer? What role has the tobacco industry played in the continued purchasing and popularity of cigarettes?

Part 3) How has the view of smoking begun to change? How is this seen in our society including restaurants, bars, and even on television and in movies?

Essay Topic 3

It was once said that all drugs are poison.

Part 1) Why was this believed by Paracelsus? Would you agree? Why or why not? Would most doctors today agree with you? Why or why not?

Part 2) How is this statement flipped with discussing cancer? What does this reveal about cancer research throughout time? What does this say about the dangers of cancer research?

Part 3) Do you believe that this can still be said about cancer research today? Is it as experimental as it once was? Why or why not? Would you have participated in these experimental trials? Why or why not?

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