Cancer - Key Characteristics

Question 1

Name the 2 key characteristics exclusive to cancer?

Answer 1

METASTASIS
and
ANAPLASIA

Question 2

Name the term regarding the capacity of cells to leave one tissue area, migrate to distant sites and establish new populations of cells?

Answer 2

METASTASIS

Question 3

Cancer cells lack ___________ __________ making it easier for them to break off and travel.

Answer 3

ADHESION MOLECULES

Question 4

List the 4 mechanisms by which cancer spreads from the original tumor?

Answer 4

1. PROGRESSIVE DIRECT LOCAL INVASION OF NEARBY STRUCTURES
2. THROUGH BODY CAVITIES
3. TO DISTANT SITE VIA BLOODSTREAM (hematonegous metastasis)
4. TO DISTANT SITE VIA LYMPHATIC SYSTEM

Question 5

What is it called when mutations make the cells more “stem-cell like”, that is, able to launch new populations of renegade cells like themselves?

Answer 5

ANAPLASIA

Question 6

Anaplasia is _____________ to cancerous growths.

Answer 6

EXCLUSIVE

Question 7

Can massage promote genetic mutation?

Answer 7

NO

Question 8

Can massage therapy promote cell shedding?

Answer 8

YES

but not before they are ready, at a mobile level of anaplasia

Question 9

The major CONTRAINDICATION to cancer massage is manipulation of _______________ and direct manipulation of ___________.

Answer 9

UNDIAGNOSED LUMP
+
TUMORS