Cancer & Heart Disease

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Across
  1. 2. Pectoris When need for oxygen exceeds supply.
  2. 4. blood carrying little or oxygen.
  3. 5. Cells Unspecialized cells that can divide and produce cells that differentiate into the many different types of specialized cells in the body (brain cells, muscle cells, skin cells, blood cells, and so on.)
  4. 7. A method of classifying the progress or extent of a cancer in a patient.
  5. 8. Deposits of fatty substances on inner wall of artery.
  6. 11. Atrium Receives deoxygenated blood from the body.
  7. 12. The abnormal uncontrolled multiplication of cells.
  8. 13. An agent that destroys or otherwise blocks the action of carcinogens.
  9. 16. A gene involved in the transformation of a normal cell into a cancer cell.
  10. 17. tumors A tumor that is not cancerous.
Down
  1. 1. Deoxyribonucleic acid, a chemical substance that carries genetic information.
  2. 2. Thickening and hardening of arteries.
  3. 3. Stroke caused when blood vessel in brain bursts spilling blood into surrounding tissue
  4. 6. tumor A tumor that is capable of spreading, and thus is cancerous.
  5. 9. A mass of tissue that serves no physiological purpose; also called a neoplasm.
  6. 10. A section of a chromosome that contains the nucleotide base sequence for making a particular protein; the basic unit of heredity.
  7. 14. Stroke caused by a blockage in a blood vessel.
  8. 15. blood carrying oxygen.