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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. Who is Ben Orman?
(a) A student who found a lump in his side.
(b) A doctor who found a lump in his leg.
(c) An athlete who found a lump in his neck.
(d) An artist who found a lump in his arm.

2. The year of his death, 1972, marked what?
(a) The end of a deeply fractured and contentious period in the history of cancer.
(b) The beginning of huge strides in cancer research.
(c) The beginning of new cancer research.
(d) The beginning of a deeply fractured and contentious period in the history of cancer.

3. The first VAMP trial was launched in ___________. The results were abysmal. Refinements showed progress and even success. However, the cost was quite high for the young patients.
(a) 1961.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1971.

4. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.
(a) Pernicious.
(b) Vitamin deficiency.
(c) Iron deficiency.
(d) Sickle cell.

5. Virchow began to notice uncontrolled growth of cells. Virchow referred to this as _____________ or distorted growth.
(a) Physioplasia.
(b) Neoplasia.
(c) Pseudoplasia.
(d) Alloplasia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cole say this theorist lacked?

2. Pott believed that because ________________, that it could be prevented.

3. Originally, doctors dismissed the cancer. Why?

4. A final report from the panel agreed about what?

5. Cole believed that these theories may have been right when?

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