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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Will You Turn Me out If I Can't Get Better?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.
(a) Did not.
(b) Did.
(c) Rarely did.
(d) Sometimes did.

2. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.
(a) Blue blood.
(b) White blood.
(c) Poisoned blood.
(d) Red blood.

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

4. The use of MOPP continued to be used in the treatment of what?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Sarcoma.
(d) Breast cancer.

5. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Radical surgery.
(c) Radiology.
(d) Lymphoma.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.

3. Then this surgery was accelerated to what?

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

5. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?

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