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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. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?
(a) He was tired of working with young children.
(b) He worked with only older children and wanted to spend more time studying cancer in younger children.
(c) He worked with the dead and was tired of the medical field.
(d) He worked with the dead and never treated a live patient.

2. What does Cole say about the results of many surgeries?
(a) They are successful.
(b) They have harmful, disfiguring results.
(c) They are traumatic.
(d) They have unusual results.

3. 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.

4. _________________ began to resurrect the concept of counting.
(a) Brown Jerry Calloway.
(b) Harvard John Cairns.
(c) Yale James Call.
(d) Columbia Jerome Cairney.

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.
(a) A dizzy spell.
(b) Shooting pain.
(c) Numbness.
(d) A dull ache.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Henry Kaplan?

2. A battle began between two schools of thought. What are these schools of thought?

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

4. Every battle needs its iconic battleground, and one physical place epitomized the cancer wars of the late _________.

5. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were the two major arguments regarding current cancer treatments? Why?

3. Why was Farber fortunate to have lived in the right time, and also died at the right time?

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

5. What did FDR do to fight cancer? What caused support of cancer research to wane? Why?

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

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

8. How did Virchow stumble upon cancer?

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

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

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