Q WAR ON CANCER ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OVERVIEW Cancer is an unqualified enemy of the living world costing both in emotional turmoil and in thousands of careers invested in diagnosis, treatment, and research. Cancer is a broad collection of molecular disease states characterized by cells that divide in an uncontrolled fashion and that no longer respect their role or confinement within their tissue of origin. Despite the many environmental, hereditary, viral, dietary, and chemical causes of cancer, they all have one common root cause: mutational changes in genes that control cell division. What is the scientific community doing to attempt to eliminate the most common forms of cancer that are ravaging society? INSTRUCTIONS • Read chapter 8, sections 8.1 – 8.4, of the course text on cell division, then specifically the last section (8.6) on how cells become cancerous. This is the context for completing the War on Cancer Assignment. • Watch the presentation “Ways to Fight Cancer.” Notice that the presentation outlines essentially 3 approaches to fighting cancer: a) reduction of cancer risks, b) correction of cancer genes, and c) destruction of cancerous tissue. • Open the War on Cancer – 10 Discoveries document under the War on Cancer Resources on the War on Cancer Assignment page. Study the discoveries. Then, open the assignment submission link in the text box and number from 1 to 10. • Reflect carefully on discovery 1. Would this discovery be more useful for a) reducing cancer risks, b) correcting/restoring cancer cells to normal, or c) destroying cancerous tissue? After number 1 in your list, place the letter representing the approach to fighting cancer that would best be served by this new discovery. Place only 1 letter for each number. (More than 1 approach may be served, but which one is most likely to be helped most significantly?) • Repeat this analysis for each of the remaining 9 discoveries. Return to the “Ways to Fight Cancer” presentation as needed for additional perspective. When finished, your assignment should be a numbered (1–10) list of letters (a), (b) or (c).

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