PATHO370 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Cancer grading is based on - Answers -cell differentiation
Metaplasia is - Answers -the replacement of one differentiated cell type with another.
Your patient is scheduled for a staging procedure. She wants to know what that means.
The correct response is which of the following? - Answers -It is a procedure for
determining the extent of tumor spread.
In general, a cancer cell that is more tissue-specific differentiated is more likely to be
aggressive. - Answers -False
After surgery to remove a lung tumor, your patient is scheduled for chemotherapy,
which will - Answers -kill rapidly dividing cells.
Breast cancer in women who have the breast cancer gene - Answers -occurs at an
earlier age.
Proto-oncogenes - Answers -are normal cellular genes that promote growth.
The cellular change that is considered preneoplastic is - Answers -dysplasia.
Paraneoplastic syndromes in cancer involve excessive production of substances by
multiple means. A common substance found in excessive amounts resulting from
cancer paraneoplastic syndromes is - Answers -calcium.
The cellular response indicative of injury because of faulty metabolism is - Answers -
intracellular accumulations.
Your patient eats "lots of fat," leads a "stressful" life, and has smoked "about two packs
a day for the last 40 years." Her chronic morning cough recently worsened, and she was
diagnosed with a lung mass. The most likely contributing factor for development of lung
cancer in this patient is - Answers -cigarette smoking.
The cellular component that is most susceptible to radiation injury is the - Answers -
DNA
The most common tumor-suppressor gene defect identified in cancer cells is - Answers
-P53
After bronchoscopy and histologic examination of a suspected tumor, your patient is
diagnosed with primary bronchial carcinoma. Thus, the tumor - Answers -is malignant.
Cancer grading is based on - Answers -cell differentiation
Metaplasia is - Answers -the replacement of one differentiated cell type with another.
Your patient is scheduled for a staging procedure. She wants to know what that means.
The correct response is which of the following? - Answers -It is a procedure for
determining the extent of tumor spread.
In general, a cancer cell that is more tissue-specific differentiated is more likely to be
aggressive. - Answers -False
After surgery to remove a lung tumor, your patient is scheduled for chemotherapy,
which will - Answers -kill rapidly dividing cells.
Breast cancer in women who have the breast cancer gene - Answers -occurs at an
earlier age.
Proto-oncogenes - Answers -are normal cellular genes that promote growth.
The cellular change that is considered preneoplastic is - Answers -dysplasia.
Paraneoplastic syndromes in cancer involve excessive production of substances by
multiple means. A common substance found in excessive amounts resulting from
cancer paraneoplastic syndromes is - Answers -calcium.
The cellular response indicative of injury because of faulty metabolism is - Answers -
intracellular accumulations.
Your patient eats "lots of fat," leads a "stressful" life, and has smoked "about two packs
a day for the last 40 years." Her chronic morning cough recently worsened, and she was
diagnosed with a lung mass. The most likely contributing factor for development of lung
cancer in this patient is - Answers -cigarette smoking.
The cellular component that is most susceptible to radiation injury is the - Answers -
DNA
The most common tumor-suppressor gene defect identified in cancer cells is - Answers
-P53
After bronchoscopy and histologic examination of a suspected tumor, your patient is
diagnosed with primary bronchial carcinoma. Thus, the tumor - Answers -is malignant.
