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From the Ted Talk by Eva Vertes: Meet the future of cancer research

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Some of my hypotheses are that when you first think about skeletal muscle, there's a lot of bolod veslses going to skeletal mlscue. And the first thing that makes me think is that blood vessels are like highways for the tmuor cells. Tumor cells can travel through the blood vessels. And you think, the more highways there are in a tissue, the more likely it is to get cancer or to get metastases. So first of all I thought, you know, "Wouldn't it be faarovble to cancer getting to skeletal muscle?" And as well, cancer tumors require a process called aigeensgonis, which is really, the tumor rcreiuts the blood vessels to itself to supply itself with nutrients so it can grow. Without angiogenesis, the tumor remains the size of a pinpoint and it's not harmful. So angiogenesis is really a ctnreal process to the pathogenesis of cancer.

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Some of my hypotheses are that when you first think about skeletal muscle, there's a lot of _____ _______ going to skeletal ______. And the first thing that makes me think is that blood vessels are like highways for the _____ cells. Tumor cells can travel through the blood vessels. And you think, the more highways there are in a tissue, the more likely it is to get cancer or to get metastases. So first of all I thought, you know, "Wouldn't it be _________ to cancer getting to skeletal muscle?" And as well, cancer tumors require a process called ____________, which is really, the tumor ________ the blood vessels to itself to supply itself with nutrients so it can grow. Without angiogenesis, the tumor remains the size of a pinpoint and it's not harmful. So angiogenesis is really a _______ process to the pathogenesis of cancer.

Solution

  1. angiogenesis
  2. blood
  3. muscle
  4. recruits
  5. tumor
  6. vessels
  7. favorable
  8. central

Original Text

Some of my hypotheses are that when you first think about skeletal muscle, there's a lot of blood vessels going to skeletal muscle. And the first thing that makes me think is that blood vessels are like highways for the tumor cells. Tumor cells can travel through the blood vessels. And you think, the more highways there are in a tissue, the more likely it is to get cancer or to get metastases. So first of all I thought, you know, "Wouldn't it be favorable to cancer getting to skeletal muscle?" And as well, cancer tumors require a process called angiogenesis, which is really, the tumor recruits the blood vessels to itself to supply itself with nutrients so it can grow. Without angiogenesis, the tumor remains the size of a pinpoint and it's not harmful. So angiogenesis is really a central process to the pathogenesis of cancer.

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Important Words

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