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

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

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

4. Farber was determined to make people understand what?
(a) The nature and devastating effects of cancer.
(b) The ways to prevent cancer.
(c) The fear that cancer causes.
(d) The weakness of cancer.

5. "Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure" begins with a quote from who?
(a) Sidney Farber.
(b) Siddhartha Mukherjee.
(c) Percival Pott.
(d) David Cantor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Then this surgery was accelerated to what?

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

3. During that time period, ________________ were often employed as assistants to chimney sweeps, often with fatal results.

4. _____________________ published a report in 1956 that delineated the connection between tobacco and lung cancer.

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.

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