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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. "Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure" begins with a quote from who?

2. The author compares the cure for cancer to the story of whom?

3. The choice between the two paths is ______________.

4. Rather than initiating his studies with cancer in its full-blown form, Auerbach has tried to understand what?

5. In Spring 2005, Mukherjee had to make a decision. What was this decision?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the battle to attack pre-cancer versus full blown cancer significant?

2. What did Percival Pott notice? How is this significant?

3. What is the significance of the SRC gene?

4. What are the similarities between AIDS and cancer? Is this important? Why or why not?

5. What is the role of a laboratory scientist? What type of people are suited for this work?

6. How did the discovery of scrotal cancer help children?

7. What is the Red Queen Syndrome?

8. How did the tide begin to turn regarding Americans' view smoking?

9. What is the oncogene theory?

10. Why was Phyllis Clauson at first not believed? Is this surprising? Why or why not?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In 1968, Farber celebrated the 21st anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.

Part 1) What was the Jimmy Fund? How was the fact it had celebrated its 21st anniversary important? Who was Jimmy? How is his life significant to the study of cancer?

Part 2) What is also significant about what is known about his reasons for survival? What does this also say about cancer and cancer research?

Part 3) What other celebrities are found in this book? Who became a celebrity because of cancer? Why? How did this affect cancer research and the public's support of cancer research? How are celebrities today still important to various medical organizations? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Cancer is said to be a total disease.

Part 1) What is meant by this statement? Do you agree that cancer is a total disease? Why or why not? What does this mean for cancer research and potential cures for cancer?

Part 2) Is cancer the only disease that is a total disease? If not, what other diseases would you consider total diseases? Are there any diseases that are not total diseases? If so, which ones? Why?

Part 3) How might you deal with a total disease like cancer? How might it affect you? Who would you reach out to if you found out you had a total disease like cancer? Why?

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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