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Theraputic Uses of Stem Cells and Cancer
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Total cards: 7•Content version: v3•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026
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#1
Front (Question)
How do you grow stem cells and use them to treat a patient?
Back (Answer)
Remove stem cells from a patient, culture them in a lab and then put them back into the part where you removed them from.
#2
Front (Question)
Name therapeutic uses of stem cells?
Back (Answer)
To treat cancer, to treat corneal damage
#3
Front (Question)
Name some future uses of stem cells?
Back (Answer)
Treat Parkinsons, Alzheimer’s and MS
#4
Front (Question)
What is Cancer?
Back (Answer)
An uncontrolled growth of cells.
#5
Front (Question)
Why do cancer cells divide uncontrollably?
Back (Answer)
They do not respond to regulatory signals
#6
Front (Question)
How would you recognise a tumour
Back (Answer)
A mass of undifferentiated cells
#7
Front (Question)
Why does Cancer sometimes spread?
Back (Answer)
The cancer cells fail to attach to one another and spread throughout the body (via the bloodstream) and form secondary tumours