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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. What was the goal of the oncologist at this time?

2. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

3. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.

4. __________ trial and error continued.

5. One woman with choriocarcinoma was treated with _____________ and recovered.

Short Essay Questions

1. Choose a period of history that is significant to cancer research. How is this significant?

2. Describe Min Chiu Li's work. Why did others believe further treatment was not necessary?

3. How was this letter to Richard Nixon significant at the time?

4. Why did breast cancer clinical trials last ten years? How could these trials have been run better?

5. What is meant by counting? Why does this matter?

6. Describe Farber's society. How was it successful?

7. How could this battle regarding surgery be ended?

8. How does chemotherapy reverse Paracelsus' belief about poison and drugs?

9. What symptoms led to Carla Reed learning she had leukemia?

10. Why was John Bennett wrong?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Mukherjee discusses the history of cancer.

Part 1) When was the finding and study of cancer first seen? How is this surprising? Why might knowledge and/or discussion of cancer stopped after this period of time? Did cancer still exist? Why or why not?

Part 2) What are two other times in history when the study of cancer took place? What did doctors and scientists know about cancer at that time? On what information was this knowledge based? How accurate was this knowledge?

Part 3) What is known about cancer today? How much of our knowledge today is based on previous knowledge? How important is cancer history to the study of cancer today? Why? How is history, in general, important to us today?

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