Cancer+Questions+JM


 * 1) The article begins by mentioning two important people with cancer. Who is Elizabeth Edwards? Who is Tony Snow? (Include their politcal party, job, and current health status-this article was written in April-your answer should have more than what you can find in the article)
 * 2) What is a metastatic cancer cell?
 * 3) Why does the author call cancer cells barbarians and cannibals?
 * 4) What do we know about the events that transform a normal cell to a cancer cell?
 * 5) Why is harder to study metastatic cancer cells?
 * 6) How many cells do primary tumors shed each day (in a rodent)? Yet how many metastatic tumors do these rodents have?
 * 7) Describe two ways metastatic cells can travel through the body avoiding detection from our immune system.
 * 8) Where is the first site (oasis for the cancer cell) that metastasis generally occurs? Why? Why is it an oasis? (What is an oasis?)
 * 9) What is a dormant micrometastasis? Why are they relevant to human health?
 * 10) What evidence do we have that metastasis occurs in organs that are similar to the organ of the primary tumor? Give two examples.