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19.4
 * 1) **What three types of therapy are presently the standard ways to treat cancer?**
 * 2) Surgery
 * 3) Radiation
 * 4) Chemotherapy
 * 5) **a) What is an active form of immunotherapy and b) a passive form of immunotherapy for cancer?**
 * 6) "when cancer develops, the immune system has failed to dispose of cancer cells, even though they bear antigens that make them different from the boy's normal cells."
 * 7) "Monoclonal antibodies are antibodies of the same type because they are produced by the same plasma cell. Some monoclonal antibodies are designed to zero in on the receptor proteins of cancer cells."
 * 8) **What type of p53 therapy is available?**
 * 9) The type of p53 therapy that is available is the kind that "triggers apoptosis" which is programed to trigger cell death (only in cancer cells)
 * 10) **What is the rationale for antiangiogenesis therapy?**
 * 11) "The antiangiogenic drugs confine and reduce tumors by breaking up the network of new capillaries in the vicinity of a tumor."

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