1. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.
(a) Eight.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

2. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.
(a) Paris.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) London.
(d) New York.

3. Farber administered ______________ and was in wonder as Robert's disease went into remission almost immediately.
(a) Aminata.
(b) Aminophylline.
(c) Aminopterin.
(d) Aminoglycosides.

4. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?
(a) Campaign for funds to fight cancer.
(b) Lobby against cancer research.
(c) Create laws against cancer research.
(d) Campaign against Farber.

5. Several months later Rudolf Virchow, a German researcher, published a case study strikingly similar to Bennett's case. How does Virchow argue with Bennett's theory?
(a) Blood had no reason to transform itself into anything.
(b) Red blood cells could not become white blood cells.
(c) Blood cells could not multiply.
(d) Blood was not capable of transforming itself into anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who worked to keep cancer research out of trouble, and to do so he developed a consortium to keep doctors, scientists and health facilities from working at cross purposes?

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

3. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?

4. People began to develop what regarding cancer?

5. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.

(see the answer key)

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