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| The fluid portion of the blood |
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| carry oxygen and carbon dioxide |
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| circulates around and around; break causes damage |
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| What type of arteries keep blood flowing? |
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| Plaque buildup causes blood vessels to become ---- in diameter, which in turn causes ---- blood pressure. |
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| What are the top two chambers of the heart called? |
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| entrance area; receive the blood |
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| Where are the ventricles located, and what do they do? |
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| bottom; side by side; pump blood |
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| After the blood enters the heart from the top of your body, where does it go? |
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| What is the superior vena cava and what does it do? |
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| top "big vein"; goes into right atrium |
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| What is inferior vena cava? |
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| brings blood from trunk and legs up to heart; brings to right atrim: |
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| What is the tricuspid valve? |
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| type of atria-ventricle valve at the bottom of right atrium; flows down into right ventricle. |
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| Where does the right ventricle pump blood? |
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| From the right ventricle, blood goes where? |
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| What is the mitral valve? |
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| pumps out blood to rest of body |
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| happens when tricuspid or mitral valve don't close all the way; backwash |
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| How is blood pressure written? |
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| What is the cystalic number? |
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| pressure when heart's pumping to lungs and rest of body |
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| the number that measures how much your heart relaxes |
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| What is "normal" blood pressure? |
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| high blood pressure; usually develops over time |
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| What causes high blood pressure? |
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| heredity, diet, decreased activity, genes |
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| heart disease; refers to health of heart itself |
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| arteries that feed the heart |
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| cholesterol and protein deposited |
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| cholesterol and protein broken down by body |
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| fats that come from animals and are solid in the fridge |
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| Docs put int fiborous "balloon" to hold artery open |
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| severe cases; leave blockage in, but work around it with saphenous leg veeins; reroute bloodflow |
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| What protein is responsible for ovary cancer? |
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| leave original place and move around body |
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| Characteristics of cancer cells |
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abnormal in appearance and action
metastatic
multiply indefinitely
not controlled by normal metabolic processes
Divide uncontrolably |
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| Difference between cancer and tumor |
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| cancer disrupts body function; tumor mass of cells with no function |
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| group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread abnormal cells |
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| noncancerous; no effect on cells around--encapsulated |
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| cancerous; tumor invades surrounding tissue |
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| unregulated cell growth; abnormal cells not destroyed |
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| What happens during metastatic cancer? |
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| Cells break away; cells on edge of tissue break off into circulatory and other system and into body |
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| Primary v. secondary tumor |
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| where it started--primary; where it goes--secondary |
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| What are normal CA 125 levels? |
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| cancers that affect epithial tissue and linings; ex: skin, stomach, intestine, uterus, esophagus |
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| cancer associated with connective tissue; ex: tendons, bone, muscle, liver, kidneys |
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| general term describing cancers of the blood; also applies to bone marrow tissue, spleen, lymph |
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| coming back after treatment |
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| Genes responsible for ovarian cancer also associated with: |
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| breast cancer; brca 1 and brca 2 |
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| How many genes generally involved in cancer? |
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| surgery; radiation; kemotherapy |
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| What are breast and ovarian cancer drugs made from? |
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| blood in stool, colonoscopy |
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| prostate exam, blood screening called psa, EPCA 2 |
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| discoloration, sores that won't heal, moles that change color |
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| How many types of cancer? |
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| Most common type of cancer? |
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| skin cancer is also called |
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| Skin cancer most common in what ages? |
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| Gene associated with skin cancer |
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| P53, which controls cell phase |
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| Skin cancer develops most where you've been exposed because: |
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| Melanin creates more when exposed, which can cause gene mutation |
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| Lung cancer diagnosed at later stages because: |
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| TF: screening test for lung cancer is self-exam |
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| In lung cancer, it's better to have a ---- than a ----. |
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| nonsmall cell; small cell carconoma |
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| Treatment for lung cancer |
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| prostate cancer; protein produced by cells of the prostate gland; prostate-specific antigen; normal 0 ng/ml to 4 ng/ml |
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| signs symptoms of prostate cancer |
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| urine hesitancy; pain with urination; pelvic pain; blood in urine |
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| prostate cancer treatment |
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watch and wait
external radiation therapy
surgery
internal radiation therapy
cold or hot ablation
Releasing hormone blocker |
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| cervical cancer is highest in women |
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| cells that are unusual or abnormal; often in younger women |
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| What STDs is cervical cancer associated with? |
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| HPV (Gartacil vaccine) Herpes Simplex II |
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| cervical cancer treatment |
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| histerectomy; radiation therapy; kemotherapy; both R and K combined |
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| most common breast cancer |
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| some, part, or all of one breast |
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| colon cancer can appear in |
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| cancer with only minimal (5-25%) genetic/family history |
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| self-screen for colon cancer |
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| Name some chars of early onset stages of Alz Heimers. |
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Memory loss
Brain shrinks
Lost in familiar places
Misplacing items
Difficulty learning new info |
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| Later onset of AlzHeimers |
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Worsening memory loss
Depression, confusion
Relying on others for decision-making
Lose awareness of here and now
Need constant care
Brain shrinks |
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| Alz Heimers associated with |
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Plaques: nerves cannot send message from one to another
Tangles: nerve cells intertwine |
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| chronic, progressive disorder associated with group called motor system disorders |
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| Parkinson's characterized by: |
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shakiness or extreme fatigue
Memory lapses
Tremors or rigidity
Bad posture (cane, walker)
Dopamine-producing cells damaged or broken |
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| no spontaneous, automatic movement; movement is slow |
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"brittle bones"
Bones become holey, resulting from less structure
Calcium between bones less |
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| Calcium is depositted in bones in women with this hormone |
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Age
Decreased estrogen during menapause
No calcium in diet
Sedetery lifestyle
Cancer and cancer treatments
Tobacco and alcohol
Kidney problems
Causes curvature of spine--kafosis |
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| Clot causing blockage in arteries leading to brain |
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series of nucleotides at end of chromosomes that repeat
Get shorter with each division of mitosis
Causes genes to turn on/off
Eventually, cell death, aging, human death |
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| What enzyme adds back telemeres? |
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telomerase
Could be effective in understanding and curing cancer and stopping aging |
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general term describing in writing what you want done and not done
Verbal overrides written if you can speak |
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Terminally ill
No one superseeds
What you want and don't want |
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| durable power of atourney for health care |
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| someone else has responsibility for your medical decisions |
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Can be put in living will, but a document by itself
Is overridden when calling 911
Works for hospice, hosppital stay, nursing home |
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unspecialized cells that retain ability to divide
Specialized cells take their place |
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| Where can stem cells come from? |
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| come from ball of cells; can become anything, even placenta, aren't used much |
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come from blastosis
any type, except placenta |
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bone marrow
can become multiple type of cells related to blood |
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Progeria also known as Hutchinson–Gilford syndrome is an extremely rare genetic condition wherein symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested
at an early age. |
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| How long do people with Progeria live? |
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| 90% of patients with Progeria die of |
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| complications of atherosclerosis, such as heart attack or stroke |
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| What is progeria caused by? |
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| mutations in the gene coding for lamin A protein on chromosome 1 |
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