Across
- 2. Increase in cell number leading to tissue enlargement
- 5. Protein that regulates progression through the cell cycle
- 6. Protein complex that holds sister chromatids together
- 8. Agent that causes DNA mutations
- 10. Cancerous tumors
- 12. The type of cancer that arises from cells derived from the mesenchyme
- 15. Mutated genes that drive cancerous growth
- 17. Non-cancerous tumors
- 18. Sample of tissue taken for diagnosis
- 19. Programmed cell death
- 20. Cancer of blood-forming tissues and bone marrow
- 23. Kinase activated by a boulder strand break
- 26. Normal gene that can become an oncogene when mutated
- 27. Abnormal mass of tissue resulting from uncontrolled cell division
- 28. Stalled replication fork activates which kinase
- 29. Cleaves the cohesin complex
- 30. Factor Signaling molecules that stimulate cell division and survival
Down
- 1. The type of cancer that arises from epithelial cells
- 3. ____ Stem Cell: has unlimited self-renewal and differentiation potential
- 4. Surgery removing the uterus for patients with endometrial cancer
- 6. Family of enzymes that DEPEND ON CYCLIN!
- 7. A substance that can increase cancer risk
- 8. When cancerous cells spread from their point of origin to distant parts of the body
- 9. Cancer of the lymphatic system
- 11. Loss of differentiation seen in malignant cells
- 13. A process in which tumors can have access to the blood supply
- 14. Low oxygen environment
- 16. The process of determining how far cancer has spread within the body
- 21. ___ cells. They line the surfaces of the body, forming a protective barrier on organs, skin, and blood vessels
- 22. Experiment technique that allows you to measure gene expression of lots of genes at the same time
- 24. Enzyme that extends chromosome ends and enables unlimited division
- 25. A virus that integrates into the host genome, disrupting normal cell function and division potentially leading to cancer