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A 17-year-old college-bound student receives a vaccine primary prevention
against an organism that causes meningitis. This is an
example of
Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention
Disease treatment
Which is not normally secreted in response to stress? insulin
Norepinephrine
Cortisol
Epinephrine
Insulin
A disease that is native to a particular region is called Endemic
Epidemic
Endemic
Pandemic
Ethnographic
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Cancer grading is based on cell differentiation
Tumor size
Local invasion
Cell differentiation
Metastasis
Your patient is scheduled for a staging procedure. She It is a procedure for determining the extent of tumor spread
wants to know what that means. The correct response is
which of the following?
It is a procedure for determining the extent of tumor spread
It is a histologic examination of tissues to determine the
degree of tumor differentiation
Is based on exploratory surgery
It is biochemical testing of tumor cells to determine the
genetic basis of the tumor
The stage during which the patient functions normally, subclinical
although the disease processes are well established, is
referred to as
Latent
Subclinical
Prodromal
Convalescence
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After bronchoscopy and histologic examination of a Is malignant
suspected tumor, your patient is diagnosed with primary
bronchial carcinoma. Thus, the tumor
Is benign
Is malignant
Is secondary to cancer elsewhere in the body
Has spread
Tumor markers (Select all that apply.) ANS: B, C, D, E
a. are found only in the blood. Tumor markers are substances associated with tumor cells that may be helpful in
b. are produced by normal cells. identifying their tissue of origin and progression and proliferation of cancer cells.
c. help determine cancer origin. Most tumor markers are not very specific for cancer since normal cells in the tissue of
d. help identify progression of cancer. origin also produce them. Tumor markers include prostatic-specific antigen. Some
e. include prostatic-specific antigen. tumor cell markers are released into the circulation, but others must be identified
through biopsy of metastatic tissue.
Deficits in immune system function occur in cancer as a ANS: A, B, C, E
result of (Select all that apply.) Cancer cells secrete substances that suppress the immune system. Bone marrow
a. chemotherapy. suppression may be because of invasion of blood-forming cells in the bone marrow,
b. cancer cells. poor nutrition, and chemotherapeutic agents. By contrast, immunotherapy is a
c. cancer metastasis to bone marrow. method of harnessing the immune system in the treatment of cancer.
d. immunotherapy.
e. malnutrition.
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The cellular change that is considered preneoplastic is dysplasia
Anaplasia
Dysplasia
Metaplasia
Hyperplasia
Apoptosis is the process of Death
Atrophy
Death
Proliferation
Mutation
After suffering a heart attack, a middle aged man is Tertiary prevention
counseled to take a cholesterol lowering medication. This is
an example of
Primary prevention
Secondary
Tertiary
Disease treatment
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A 17-year-old college-bound student receives a vaccine primary prevention
against an organism that causes meningitis. This is an
example of
Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention
Disease treatment
Which is not normally secreted in response to stress? insulin
Norepinephrine
Cortisol
Epinephrine
Insulin
A disease that is native to a particular region is called Endemic
Epidemic
Endemic
Pandemic
Ethnographic
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Cancer grading is based on cell differentiation
Tumor size
Local invasion
Cell differentiation
Metastasis
Your patient is scheduled for a staging procedure. She It is a procedure for determining the extent of tumor spread
wants to know what that means. The correct response is
which of the following?
It is a procedure for determining the extent of tumor spread
It is a histologic examination of tissues to determine the
degree of tumor differentiation
Is based on exploratory surgery
It is biochemical testing of tumor cells to determine the
genetic basis of the tumor
The stage during which the patient functions normally, subclinical
although the disease processes are well established, is
referred to as
Latent
Subclinical
Prodromal
Convalescence
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After bronchoscopy and histologic examination of a Is malignant
suspected tumor, your patient is diagnosed with primary
bronchial carcinoma. Thus, the tumor
Is benign
Is malignant
Is secondary to cancer elsewhere in the body
Has spread
Tumor markers (Select all that apply.) ANS: B, C, D, E
a. are found only in the blood. Tumor markers are substances associated with tumor cells that may be helpful in
b. are produced by normal cells. identifying their tissue of origin and progression and proliferation of cancer cells.
c. help determine cancer origin. Most tumor markers are not very specific for cancer since normal cells in the tissue of
d. help identify progression of cancer. origin also produce them. Tumor markers include prostatic-specific antigen. Some
e. include prostatic-specific antigen. tumor cell markers are released into the circulation, but others must be identified
through biopsy of metastatic tissue.
Deficits in immune system function occur in cancer as a ANS: A, B, C, E
result of (Select all that apply.) Cancer cells secrete substances that suppress the immune system. Bone marrow
a. chemotherapy. suppression may be because of invasion of blood-forming cells in the bone marrow,
b. cancer cells. poor nutrition, and chemotherapeutic agents. By contrast, immunotherapy is a
c. cancer metastasis to bone marrow. method of harnessing the immune system in the treatment of cancer.
d. immunotherapy.
e. malnutrition.
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The cellular change that is considered preneoplastic is dysplasia
Anaplasia
Dysplasia
Metaplasia
Hyperplasia
Apoptosis is the process of Death
Atrophy
Death
Proliferation
Mutation
After suffering a heart attack, a middle aged man is Tertiary prevention
counseled to take a cholesterol lowering medication. This is
an example of
Primary prevention
Secondary
Tertiary
Disease treatment
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