CANCER WEBQUEST - Ms. Schaller Science



CANCER WEBQUEST

Instructions: Go to stonescience., click on the Biology Resources tab, then on Cancer Webquest (under Useful Websites for Biology). Next, click on Hallmarks of Cancer and navigate through each of the tabs on the left to answer the questions below.

CANCER OVERVIEW:

1. Where can cancer, or tumors, occur in the body? ________________________________________________

2. Solid tumors form ________________ while liquid tumors __________________________________________

3. How do cancers start? ___________________________________________________________________________

4. What percent of cancers are genetically inherited? ____________________

5. As we age, we accumulate more and more mutations. What does this explain?

GROWING UNCONTROLLABLY:

6. How or why do cancer cells grow?

EVADING DEATH:

7. How do cancer cells avoid death?

8. What is apoptosis?

PROCESSING NUTRIENTS:

9. How do cancer cells survive? What must they take in and attract?

BECOMING IMMORTAL:

10. The age of a cell and its ability to divide is related to what? Explain.

11. Explain how telomerase enables cancer cells.

INVADING TISSUES:

12. What is 90% of death from human cancers due to?

AVOIDING DETECTION: Skip

PROMOTING MUTATIONS: Skip

Click on the CAUSES & PREVENTION section and answer the following questions.

13. What percent of cancer does pollution, food additives, and industrial wastes have an effect on?

14. Click on the arrow in the Cancer Epidemiology box. Read the information for each type of cancer and fill out the chart below:

|Cancer Type: |Areas with the highest rates of that |Explain why those areas have the highest rates: |

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