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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. "Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure" begins with a quote from who?
(a) Percival Pott.
(b) Sidney Farber.
(c) Siddhartha Mukherjee.
(d) David Cantor.

2. In 1942, UK statisticians approached the Ministry of Health with the shocking news that cancer morbidity had risen ______ fold in the past 20 years.
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

3. 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?
(a) Surprised Farber and Lasker.
(b) Intimidated Farber and Lasker.
(c) Ended Farber and Lasker's campaigning.
(d) Fueled the fire for Farber and Lasker.

4. Hyperplasia was what?
(a) Decay by virtue of cells increasing in number.
(b) Decay by virtue of cells decreasing in number.
(c) Growth by virtue of cells decreasing in number.
(d) Growth by virtue of cells increasing in number.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Farber administered ______________ and was in wonder as Robert's disease went into remission almost immediately.

2. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?

3. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.

4. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?

5. Orman was diagnosed with what?

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