Health & Wellness, Ninth Edition

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Jones and Bartlett Health Sciences

Practice Quizzes

These Practice Quizzes test your knowledge of the important concepts in each chapter and provide an explanation for each answer.

Please read each question and select your answer from the choices provided. You must complete all of the questions in order to view your results. At the end of each exam, you have the option to e-mail your results to your instructor.

1: The process by which cancer causes death is called
	A: tumorigenesis
	B: biopsy
	C: metastasis
	D: pathogenesis

2: Environmental agents that increase the risk of cancer are
	A: ionizing radiation
	B: cigarette smoking
	C: tumor viruses
	D: all of the above

3: A cancer cell usually begins with a __________.
	A: tumorigenesis
	B: mutation
	C: gene
	D: birth defect

4: Chemicals in the environment that mimic the action of hormones are
	A: estrogens
	B: xenoestrogens
	C: agent orange
	D: acrylamides

5: Factors that increase the risk of breast cancer are
	A: first child born after age 30
	B: no biological children
	C: onset of menarche before age 14
	D: all of the above

6: Most prostate cancers
	A: should be operated on as soon as discovered
	B: are detected by a low PSA lever
	C: are slow growing and never cause life-threatening disease
	D: are detected by sigmoidoscopy

7: The risk of skin cancer is strongly influenced by____________and stomach cancer risk by ___________.
	A: diet; vitamin E
	B: diet; smoking
	C: sunlight; diet
	D: sunlight; vitamin deficiency

8: The best treatment for curing cancer is
	A: surgery
	B: chemotherapy
	C: raditation therapy
	D: hormone therapy

9: Sigmoidoscopy is used to detect
	A: colon cancer
	B: stomach cancer
	C: prostate cancer
	D: all of the above

10: Leukemia is caused by
	A: changes in muscle tissues
	B: changes in skin cells
	C: changes in lymph glands
	D: changes in organs that make blood cells

11: The greatest number of cancer deaths in women is caused by
	A: breast cancer
	B: lung cancer
	C: uterine cancer
	D: stomach cancer

12: Cancer is a disease in which cells grow in an unregulated, way.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

13: Susceptibility to breast or colon cancer cannot be inherited.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

14: Cigarette smoking is the cause of about one-third of all cancers.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

15: Several genetic changes must occur in a cell before it can develop into a tumor.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

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