BREAST CANCER

Use the link from the American Cancer Society to answer the questions below.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2_1x.asp?dt=5

1.         Cancer occurs when cells in a part of the body____________________________________

2.         Cancer cells can break away from a tumor and spread to other parts of the body through
            what two systems?_____________________and_________________________

3.         Define metastatic cancer._____________________________________________________

4.         A woman’s breast is made up of_________________________and____________________

5.         Most breast cancers begin in which cells?_______________________

6.         What is lymph?_____________________________________________________________

7.         What are lymph nodes?_______________________________________________________

8.         When cancer reaches the lymph nodes, what is likely to happen?______________________

Types of Breast Cancer

Write out the type of cancer – do not use the initials

9.  _______________________________is the early stage of breast cancer.

10.____________________is the term that means the cancer is confined to the place it started.

11.____________________is the term that means the cancer has not spread to the breast tissue.

12.____________________is the term that means the cancer has spread to the breast tissue.

13.___________________________________is the most common type of noninvasive cancer.

14..___________________________________begins in the milk-making glands but does not go
                                                                            through the walls of the lobules.

15.___________________________________is the most common breast cancer.

16._______________is the origination point of invasive ductal carcinoma.
17.______________  is the origination point of invasive lobular carcinoma.

Cancer Statistics

18.       How many women in the United States will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2007?
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19.       How many women will die from the disease year?________________

20.       The chance of a woman having invasive breast cancer some time during her life is about
            __________________________.

Screening for Breast Cancer

List and describe the three guidelines recommended by the American Cancer Society for finding breast cancer early in women without symptoms.
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24.       A _______________is the term used to describe a procedure that involves removing a 
           a sample of breast tissue and looking at the tissue under a microscope.  

Staging

The most common system used to describe the stages of breast cancer is the AJCC/TNM.  Explain the meaning given to the letters TNM.
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26.       N

27.       M

Symptoms of Breast Cancer

List six symptoms of breast cancer

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Cancer Treatments

Match the definition with the term by placing the correct in the blank.

_____34.  Radical mastectomy

_____35.  Lumpectomy

_____36.  Partial mastectomy

_____37.  Total mastectomy

_____38.  Modified radical mastectomy      

A.      The entire breast is removed but not the lymph nodes under the arm or muscle
           tissue from beneath the breast.
B.      Involves removing only the breast lump and some normal tissue around it.
C.      Involves removing the entire breast and some of the lymph nodes under the arm.
D.      Extensive removal of the entire breast, lymph nodes, and the chest wall muscles
          under the breast.
E.      Involves removing more of the breast tissue than a lumpectomy.

Chemotherapy and Radiation

39.       ____________________is the use of cancer-killing drugs injected into a vein or taken as
            a pill.

40.       ____________________are often damaged as well as the cancer cells with the use of
            chemotherapy.

41.       ____________________is usually the length of time chemotherapy is administered.

List three side effects of chemotherapy.

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45.       ___________________is treatment with high-energy rays to kill of shrink cancer cells.

46.       ___________________is usually the length of time radiation therapy is administered.

List three side effects of radiation therapy.

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Risk Factors and Prevention

List three breast cancer risk factors you cannot change.

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List three lifestyle changes you can make to help prevent developing breast cancer.

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