LOM Chapter 19 – Flashcards
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What term describes localized tumor growth?
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Carcinoma in situ
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Which is a description of scirrhous type tumors?
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Hard, densely packed tumor cells
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What does staging a tumor mean?
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Assessing the extent of tumor spread
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What does mutagenic mean?
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Producing a change in the DNA of a cell
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What does the notation T1N2M0 mean?
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Tumor is present with palpable regional lymph nodes and no metastases
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What is the difinition of a mutation?
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Inheritable change in a cell
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Which is a description of exenteration?
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Wide resection of tumor and removal of surrounding tissue
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What is the meaning of fulguration?
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Destruction of tissue by eletric sparks
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Which is an example of a know type of inherited cancer?
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Retinoblastoma
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What is a difinition of modality?
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Method of treatment
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Which is a definition of a radio-resistant tumor?
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Tumor requires large doses of radiation to produce death of cells
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Which is an example of genetic material that causes cancer?
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Oncogenes
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Which is a description of cauterization?
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Treating tissue with heat
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Which is a description of pharmacokinetics?
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Study of the distribution and removal of drugs in the body
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What term means assistanting or aiding?
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Adjuvant
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Which term is used in treatment of tumors with radiation?
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Linear accelerator
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Which is a description of an estrogen receptor assay?
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Test the concentration of hormone receptor sites in cells of breast cancer patients
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Which best describes a wide surgical incision of the abdomen to detect disease?
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Staging laparotomy
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What best describes interferon?
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Biological response modifier
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What term means return of symptoms of disease?
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Relapse
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Which term means cancerous tumor derived from bone?
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Osteogenic sarcoma
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A side effect of radiation therapy (redness of skin):
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Erthema
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A side effect of chemotherapy or radiotherapy (hair loss):
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Alopecia
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A side effect of radiation therapy to the lungs (abnormal growth of connective tissue):
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Fibrosis
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Hypoplasia of bone marrow:
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Myelosuppression
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Inflammation of the inner lining of an organ:
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Mucositis
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Loss of differentiation of cells and reverison to a more primitive cell type:
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Anaplasia
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Extending beyond the normal tissue boundaries:
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infiltrative
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Having the ability to enter and destroy surrounding tissue:
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Invasive
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Replication of cells; two identical cells are produced from a parent celll:
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Mitosis
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Spreading to a secondary site:
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metastasis
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cellular substance (ribonucleic acid) that is important in protein synthesis:
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RNA
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Infectious agent that reproduces by entering a host cell and using the host's genetic material to make copies of itself:
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Virus
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Rays given off by the sun:
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Ultraviolet radiation
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An agent (hydorcarbon, insecticide, hormone) that causes caner:
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Chemical carcinogen
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Genetic material within the nucleus that controls replication and protein synthesis:
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DNA
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Region of genetic material that causes cancer; found in tumor cells virus:
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Oncogene
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Change in the genetic material of a cell:
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mutation
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Energy carried by a stream of particles:
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Radiation
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Adenocarcinoma
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Cancerous (malignant) tumor of glandular tissue flesh (connective tissue) tumor of bone malignant:
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Osteosarcoma
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Flesh (connective tissue) tumor of bone malignant
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Benign
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Noncancerous
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Differentiation
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Specialization of cells
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Neoplasm
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New formation (tumor)
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