Cancer
Cancer: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as Cancer, Tumours, Causes of Cancer, Oncogenes, Cancer Detection and Diagnosis, and Treatment of Cancer.
Important Questions on Cancer
Assertion: Retroviruses in animals have the ability to transform normal cells into cancerous cells.
Reason: Retroviruses have the ability to convert proto-oncogenes into oncogenes.
Cancer cells do not exhibit one of the following features
'Contact inhibition' is the property of which cells?
For the treatment of cancer, biological response modifiers such as are given.
Anti-cancer drugs have the following side effects
MRI uses strong magnetic field _____ and radiations to detect pathological and physiological changes.
The agents which can cause neoplastic cell generation are
Normal cells in our body inhibit the uncontrolled growth of cells which they are in contact with. This is known as
Which one of the following statements is correct with respect to Cancer?
Which one of the following is not a property of cancer cell?
Which of the following sentences are true?
I. The cells of malignant tumours divide erratically.
II. More than a million Indians suffer from cancer and many die from it annually.
III. They show a property called contact inhibition.
IV. Metastasis is the most feared property of malignant tumours
Study the following related to 'Cancer'. The correct statements are
(i) Normal cells are joined by intercellular adhesion proteins called 'Cadherins" and they are missing in cancer cells
(ii) The protein $\mathrm{P}^{53}$ plays an important role with reference to the ' $\mathrm{G} 1$ check point' in the regulation of cell division cycle
(iii) Cancer cells shows a phenomenon called 'Contact inhibition'
(iv) Malignant is harmless cancer
(v) The retinoblastoma protein $\mathrm{p}^{\mathrm{RB}}$ is a 'tumor suppression' protein that is dysfunctional in several major cancers
Which of the following are the measures for the treatment of cancer?
Small lesions on spinal tissue, slip disc in spinal column and micro cancer like tumour are detected by
Match the following:
| List -I | List - II | ||
| (A) | Cancer cells | (I) | DNA replication |
| (B) | Transcriptional factors | (II) | Saccharomyces |
| (C) | Cyclins | (III) | Telomerase |
| (D) | Zygote | (IV) | Totipotent cell |
