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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. Cole believed that these theories may have been right when?
(a) In some cases.
(b) In most cases.
(c) Never.
(d) In all cases.

2. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?
(a) It is too dangerous.
(b) It cannot be the only way.
(c) It is painful.
(d) It is the only way.

3. People began to develop what regarding cancer?
(a) A sense of awareness about the disease.
(b) An internal fear about the disease.
(c) A sense of peace regarding the disease.
(d) An immunity to the disease.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cole say about the results of many surgeries?

2. 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.

3. The year of his death, 1972, marked what?

4. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.

5. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Virchow stumble upon cancer?

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

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

4. Why did Sidney Farber change professions? How might this have been a somewhat difficult adjustment?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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