PATHO EXAM 1 PRACTICE + QUESTIONS & ANSWERS – ADO TEST REVIEW 2025/2026

PATHO EXAM 1 PRACTICE + QUESTIONS & ANSWERS – ADO TEST REVIEW 2025/2026 1. A nurse is discussing preinvasive epithelial tumors of glandular or squamous cell origin. What is the nurse describing?: Cancer in situ 2. A patient has been diagnosed with cancer. Testing reveals that the cancer cells have spread to local lymph nodes. A nurse realizes this cancer would be documented as stage:: 3 3. Which information should the nurse include when teaching about angiogenic factors? In cancer, angiogenic factors stimulate:: New blood vessel growth 4. A 45-year-old female was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Which of the following viruses is the most likely cause of this disease?: Human papillomavirus 5. Which statement indicates a patient has a correct understanding of metastasis? The most common route of metastasis is through the blood vessels and:: Lymphatics 6. A patient asks when adjuvant chemotherapy is used. How should the nurse respond? Adjuvant chemotherapy is used:: After surgical removal of a tumor 7. The most important environmental risk factor for cancer is exposure to::