Memory Match: Cancer
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Game with terms regarding cancer, specifically acute lymphocytic leukemia as well as general science terms
Topics of this game:
- A treatment to treat cancer that uses chemical agents and drugs to destroy cancer cells
- A type of disease in which abnormal cells grow rapidly and quickly divide
- A type of cancer that leads to too many lymphoblasts
- The study of cancer
- The study of diseases and disorders related to blood
- A substance that causes your body's immune system to react and can also be used to diagnose cancer
- Not cancerous. This type of tumor is not able to spread to other parts of the body
- Test to diagnose cancer. The doctor takes bits of tissue and looks to see if the cells have changed
- Refers to the earliest-formed bone marrow cells. In leukemia, they accumulate in large numbers
- The spongy tissue found in larger bones such as hip and thighs and that produces blood cells
- Cancer is the name for over 200 diseases in which abnormal cells grow and rapidly divide
- The basic unit of which all living things are made
- Using chemical agents or drugs to destroy cancerous cells
- Brittle bones due to the loss of calcium; may be a side effect of certain cancer medicines
- The substance in red blood cells which carries oxygen
- A network of cells and organs that defends the body against attacks by foreign invaders
- Another word for cancer. Cancerous. This means the cancer can spread to other parts of the body
- A special method of collecting blood when only one component of the blood is needed
- part of the blood that helps with controlling bleeding and clotting. Chemo can decrease these
- They are the most numerous of the cells in the body. They use hemoglobin to carry oxygen
- When cancer cells and symptoms reduce or disappear. Does not necessarily mean cancer is cured
