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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. People began to develop what regarding cancer?

2. 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.

3. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.

4. What is counting?

5. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Virchow stumble upon cancer?

5. What was the significance of using MOPP in the treatment of breast cancer?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The government has at times been involved in the fight against cancer.

Part 1) When did the U.S. government first get involved in the fight against cancer? What led to this involvement? How was cancer research affected by this involvement? When and why did this involvement and public interest wane? How did this affect cancer research?

Part 2) At what other times did the government get involved in cancer research? How did the fight against cancer benefit from this involvement? How are our own lives affected by this involvement?

Part 3) At this point in our history, is the study of cancer as important to the American people as it was at other times in the past? Why or why not? What issues are most important to Americans today? Why? How might this affect the study of cancer?

Essay Topic 2

It was once said that all drugs are poison.

Part 1) Why was this believed by Paracelsus? Would you agree? Why or why not? Would most doctors today agree with you? Why or why not?

Part 2) How is this statement flipped with discussing cancer? What does this reveal about cancer research throughout time? What does this say about the dangers of cancer research?

Part 3) Do you believe that this can still be said about cancer research today? Is it as experimental as it once was? Why or why not? Would you have participated in these experimental trials? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The late 1940s and 1950s brought the world a great number of new pharmaceuticals.

Part 1) What are four of these pharmaceuticals? What is the purpose of these pharmaceuticals? How is this growth in medicine significant?

Part 2) How have we been affected by these new pharmaceuticals? How different would the field of medicine be today if it were not for these new medicines?

Part 3) What problems have these new medicines caused? What issues must we now deal with in which these new types of medicine are at least partially to blame? How might these problems change the world of medicine yet again?

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