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The cellular response indicative of injury due to faulty metabolism is
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Hydropic swelling u


Lactate production u u


Metaplasia u


Intracellular accumulations - Answer intracellular accumulation
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After surgery to remove a lung tumor, your patient is scheduled for chemotherapy, whic
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h will
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Selectively kill tumor cells u u u


Stimulate immune cells to fight the cancer u u u u u u


Have minimal side effects
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Kill rapidly dividing cells - Answer kill rapidly dividing cells
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All these cellular responses are potentially reversible except
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Necrosis u


Metaplasia
Atrophy u


Hyperplasia - Answer Necrosis u u u




A 17-year-old college-
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bound student receives a vaccine against an organism that causes meningitis. This is a
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n example of
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Primary prevention u u


Secondary prevention u u


Tertiary prevention u u


Disease treatment - Answer primary prevention
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Which is not normally secreted in response to stress?
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Norepinephrine u


Cortisol
Epinephrine u


Insulin - Answer insulin u u u




A disease that is native to a particular region is called
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Epidemic
Endemic
Pandemic
Ethnographic - Answer Endemic u u u




Cancer grading is based on u u u u

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Tumor size u


Local invasion u


Cell differentiation
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Metastasis - Answer cell differentiation u u u u




Your patient is scheduled for a staging procedure. She wants to know what that means.
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The correct response is which of the following?
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It is a procedure for determining the extent of tumor spread
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It is a histologic examination of tissues to determine the degree of tumor differentiation
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Is based on exploratory surgery
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It is biochemical testing of tumor cells to determine the genetic basis of the tumor -
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uAnswer It is a procedure for determining the extent of tumor spread
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The stage during which the patient functions normally, although the disease processes
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are well established, is referred to as
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Latent
Subclinical
Prodromal
Convalescence - Answer subclinical u u u




After bronchoscopy and histologic examination of a suspected tumor, your patient is dia
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gnosed with primary bronchial carcinoma. Thus, the tumor
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Is benign
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Is malignant
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Is secondary to cancer elsewhere in the body
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Has spread - Answer Is malignant
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Tumor markers (Select all that apply.)
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a. are found only in the blood.
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b. are produced by normal cells.
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c. help determine cancer origin.
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d. help identify progression of cancer.
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e. include prostatic-specific antigen. - Answer ANS: B, C, D, E
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Tumor markers are substances associated with tumor cells that may be helpful in identif
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ying their tissue of origin and progression and proliferation of cancer cells. Most tumor
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markers are not very specific for cancer since normal cells in the tissue of origin also pro
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duce them. Tumor markers include prostatic-
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specific antigen. Some tumor cell markers are released into the circulation, but others
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must be identified through biopsy of metastatic tissue.
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Deficits in immune system function occur in cancer as a result of (Select all that apply.)
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a. chemotherapy.
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b. cancer cells.
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c. cancer metastasis to bone marrow.
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d. immunotherapy.
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e. malnutrition. - Answer ANS: A, B, C, E
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Cancer cells secrete substances that suppress the immune system. Bone marrow supp
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ression may be because of invasion of blood-
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forming cells in the bone marrow, poor nutrition, and chemotherapeutic agents. By cont
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rast, immunotherapy is a method of harnessing the immune system in the treatment of
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cancer.

The cellular change that is considered preneoplastic is
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Anaplasia
Dysplasia
Metaplasia
Hyperplasia - Answer dysplasia u u u




Apoptosis is the process of u u u u




Atrophy
Death
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Mutation - Answer Death u u u




After suffering a heart attack, a middle aged man is counseled to take a cholesterol low
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ering medication. This is an example of
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Primary prevention u u


Secondary u


Tertiary u


Disease treatment - Answer Tertiary prevention
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Many of the responses to stress are attributed to activation of the sympathetic nervous
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system and are mediated by
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Norepinephrine u


Cortisol
Glucagon u


ACTH - Answer norepinephrine
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Selye's three phases of the stress response include all of the following except
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Allostasis
Resistance u


Alarm
Exhaustion - Answer Allostasis u u u