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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. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Institute.
(b) Gauntlet.
(c) Report.
(d) Research.

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 a deeply fractured and contentious period in the history of cancer.
(c) The beginning of new cancer research.
(d) The beginning of huge strides in cancer research.

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

4. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Folic acid.
(b) Maple syrup.
(c) Vitamin D.
(d) Chemotherapy.

5. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Surgery.
(d) Chemotherapy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The only way to test these different beliefs about Halstedian theory was to do what?

2. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.

3. What was the problem with the type of oncologist described in number 77?

4. Several months later Rudolf Virchow, a German researcher, published a case study strikingly similar to Bennett's case. How does Virchow argue with Bennett's theory?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Farber's society. How was it successful?

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

3. On what two fundamental tenets is biology based? Explain these tenets.

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

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

6. How is the 21st anniversary of the Jimmy Fund significant?

7. What are the two schools of thought regarding surgery? Why was this such a problem?

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

9. What were the problems with VAMP? How might these be corrected?

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

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