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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. A final report from the panel agreed about what?
(a) That such an organization would never work.
(b) That such a panel should not be formed.
(c) That such a hospital is not cost-effective.
(d) That such an agency should be formed.

2. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?
(a) It had lessened somewhat.
(b) It had just begun.
(c) It had grown.
(d) It had all but silenced.

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

4. Albert Lasker was diagnosed with colon cancer and eventually died. Farber was also diagnosed with a type of colon cancer but survived. The more personal brushes with cancer did what?
(a) Ended Farber and Lasker's campaigning.
(b) Surprised Farber and Lasker.
(c) Fueled the fire for Farber and Lasker.
(d) Intimidated Farber and Lasker.

5. What is MOPP?
(a) A simple surgery done for those with cancer.
(b) A tool used to clean the floor.
(c) A combination chemotherapy regimen.
(d) A radical surgery done for those with cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?

2. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?

3. 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.

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

5. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is meant by the "smiling oncologist?"

2. Describe the New York Times letter to Richard Nixon. How could this tactic be useful today?

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

4. How is cancer a total disease? How is this important?

5. How did Virchow stumble upon cancer?

6. Why did breast cancer clinical trials last ten years? How could these trials have been run better?

7. How does chemotherapy reverse Paracelsus' belief about poison and drugs?

8. How could this battle regarding surgery be ended?

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

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

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