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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.
(a) A small.
(b) A great.
(c) An infinite.
(d) A limited.

2. Orman was diagnosed with what?
(a) Basal Cell Carcinoma.
(b) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
(c) Kaposi Sarcoma.
(d) Hodgkin's lymphoma.

3. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.
(a) Numbness.
(b) A dizzy spell.
(c) A dull ache.
(d) Shooting pain.

4. Cole believed that surgery was often what?
(a) Very necessary.
(b) Rewarding.
(c) Very Simple.
(d) Unnecessary.

5. Originally, doctors dismissed the cancer. Why?
(a) They assumed that it was a simple cancer to cure.
(b) They assumed that it was simply a sexually transmitted disease.
(c) They did not care about the lives of the poor.
(d) They assumed it was a hereditary disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.

2. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?

3. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?

4. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.

5. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.

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