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Human Health and Disease — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Rajasthan BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYHuman Health and Disease1 Mark
MCQ
Which is not cancer?
  • A
    Leukaemia
  • B
    Glaucoma
  • C
    Carcinoma
  • D
    Sarcoma
✓

Answer

  1. Glaucoma

Explanation:

Glaucoma is not cancer but an abnormality of the eye which is caused due to an increase in the fluid pressure that leads to the permanent damage of the optic nerves and consequently irreversible loss of eyesight.

It is characterized by the symptoms such as eye pain, blurred vision, headache, nausea, vomiting.

Whereas leukaemia is the cancer of blood and bone marrow, carcinoma is a cancer of epithelial cell and sarcoma is the cancer of connective tissue and other non-epithelial tissues.

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