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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.
(a) Lymphomas.
(b) Laryngeal Cancer.
(c) Leukemias.
(d) Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.

2. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?
(a) Farber's.
(b) Mukherjee's.
(c) Halsted's.
(d) Howard's.

3. What does Cole say this theorist lacked?
(a) The case studies to support his claims.
(b) The right tools to achieve his goals and to execute the procedure correctly.
(c) The research to back up his claims.
(d) The intelligence to achieve his goals and to execute the procedure correctly.

4. In _________ John Bennett, a Scottish physician, had described the case of a 28-year-old slate layer who complained of a mysterious swelling in his spleen.
(a) 1845.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1885.

5. The researchers met with Howard Skipper, a "_______________" who had been injecting rodents with leukemic cells.
(a) Mouse doctor.
(b) Children's doctor.
(c) Cat doctor.
(d) People's doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. People began to develop what regarding cancer?

2. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?

3. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.

4. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.

5. Who is Ben Orman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the drug and cancer lists of Canellas and Frei. How is this significant?

2. What important drugs came out in the 1940s and 1950s? How are these important to us today?

3. Who is Ben Orman? How is he significant to the study of cancer?

4. How was this letter to Richard Nixon significant at the time?

5. Describe Bennett's patient. How was John Bennett's diagnosis logical?

6. What symptoms led to Carla Reed learning she had leukemia?

7. What is VAMP? What about this might have surprised Zubrod?

8. How was the chemotherapy ward a battle ground in the 1970s?

9. Describe Min Chiu Li's work. Why did others believe further treatment was not necessary?

10. What is meant by counting? Why does this matter?

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