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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. How did therapies need to be developed?
(a) From the top down.
(b) From the bottom up.
(c) From completely new research.
(d) From old research and studies.

2. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?
(a) Red blood cells.
(b) Epithelial cells.
(c) White blood cells.
(d) Oxyphil cells.

3. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?
(a) Vincent DeVita.
(b) Vincent DeVeau.
(c) Vincent DeVane.
(d) Vincent DeVito.

4. Mukherjee met with Carla. They discussed the survival rate of leukemia. At one time, there was almost no chance that Carla could have been able to survive the onset of the leukemia. With the advent of modern medicine and new treatments, Carla had a ______ chance of surviving the disease.
(a) 75%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 45%
(d) 30%.

5. __________ trial and error continued.
(a) Very little.
(b) No.
(c) A great deal of.
(d) Some.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Ben Orman?

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?

4. The radical mastectomy needed to be tested against what?

5. VAMP is a _________ drug combination that was proposed for cancer treatment. Frei, Freireich and Skipper believed that the combination would prove to be the answer they were looking for, yet when Frei proposed it to Zubrod, the man was stunned.

(see the answer key)

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