NURSING 3PA2 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cryosurgery, Ototoxicity, Biological Response Modifiers
23 Apr 2017
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Cancer uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body; other terms: malignant or malignancy. Malignant or cancerous cells composed of less well-differentiated cells that have lost the ability to control both cell proliferation and differentiation into a mature cell. Oncology study of tumors and their treatment including non-malignant or benign tumors. Risk of cancer increases with age with a higher % of cancer cases occurring in those 70 or older. More specifically, prostate cancer is the most common cancers among canadian men and breast cancer is the most common cancer types among canadian women in canada. In terms of estimated deaths, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women, followed by colorectal cancer in men and breast cancer in women. Cell cycle sequence of events involved in replication and distribution of dna to daughter cells in which a starting cell duplicates its contents and divides into two identical daughter cells.
