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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. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?
(a) A panel of scientists and doctors.
(b) A public hospital.
(c) A private organization.
(d) A government agency.

2. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?
(a) Nothing.
(b) One cell.
(c) A large group of cells.
(d) Other cells.

3. The parcel Farber was expecting contained aminopterin, a __________ crystalline chemical that Farber hoped could be used in deterring the growth of childhood leukemia.
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

4. The only way to test these different beliefs about Halstedian theory was to do what?
(a) Run several controlled clinical trials.
(b) Study previous research.
(c) Study it in animals.
(d) Run a controlled clinical trial.

5. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?
(a) It is painful.
(b) It is the only way.
(c) It is too dangerous.
(d) It cannot be the only way.

Short Answer Questions

1. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.

2. Dissenting voices began to be heard. How many major arguments existed?

3. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.

4. Some doctors believed that any form of this type of surgery yielded what?

5. Who was Henry Kaplan?

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