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Cancer Crossword Puzzle

Tashi Scales
Professor Smalls
BIOL-1408

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What exposures cause cancer environmental risk factors?
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What do you call a cancer risk factor that is family related?
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What do you call a proto-oncogene that mutates and becomes a bad gene that can be permanently activated when it shouldn't, causing the cell to grow out of control, leading to cancer?
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Which cancer treatment uses high heat to small areas of body tissue, damaging and killing cancer cells, or making them more sensitive to radiation and certain chemotherapy drugs?
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A cancer treatment in which extreme cold is produced by liquid nitrogen or argon gas is used to destroy abnormal tissue.
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What type of therapy, at high doses, kills cells or slows their growth by damaging their DNA?
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What do you call a tumor that stays in one spot and does not affect surrounding structures? Hint: Can be harmless or possibly could become cancerous.
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A disease that replicates cells when it should not.
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Which cancer treatment not only kills fast-growing cancer cells, but also kills or slows the growth of healthy cells that grow and divide quickly? Hint: Damage to healthy calls can cause hair loss or mouth sores.
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What do you call invasive tumors that infiltrate surrounding tissues?