HOBBS BCC114 Ch 18 – Flashcards
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Mommography is used to detect tumors in the...
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breast
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The Her2/neu gene affects the...
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treatment and prognosis
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A blood test that detects a protein normally present in an embryo but only seen in adults who have cancer
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CEA
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Karen Jones's breast cancer is staged as: T3 N1 M0.
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She has a large tumor that has spread to a lymph node but not to other organs
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Hickman, Broviac, and Groshong
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central venous catheters
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The Jewett classification is used to stage cancer of the...
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bladder
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leuk/o
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white
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The primary accented syllable in the pronunciation of karyotype (kair-ee-oh-type)
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kair
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Tumor of the bone and connective tissue
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-oma, oste/o-, sarc/o0
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Excision of the tumor as well as the nearby organs because of wide-spread cancer
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exenteration
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The organ that could develop an adenocarcinoma
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pancreas
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The process of single cell destruction or programmed cell death
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apoptosis
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Cancerous tumors release a substance that causes blood vessels in the surrounding tissues to grow into the tumor to provide it with nutrients
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angiogenesis
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A mitosis inhibitor chemotherapy drug
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causes DNA to break during cell division
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A sometimes benign, sometimes malignant tumor of the ovary that contains hair and teeth
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teratoma
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These detect, engulf, and destroy cancerous cells
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NK cells
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Manually examining the characteristics of leukocytes under a microscope to look for leukemia is a test
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blood smear
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When a tumor is still located at its first site
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in situ
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A gene that is the most important suppressor gene
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CEA
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Receptor assays are cytology tests done for what type of cancer?
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breast
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What type of biopsy is done with a large-gauge needle inserted into the tumor to obtain several long pieces of tissue
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core needle biopsy
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Carcinomatosis
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cancerous tumors in multiple sites
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A cell has what structures
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nucleus, mitochondria, cytoplasm
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A cancer that shows characteristic Reed-Sternberg cells on biopsy
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Hodgkin's lymphoma
