Oncology Nursing Exam 2025
Questions and Answers
Leading sites of new cancer cases - ANSWER✔✔-Male- prostate
Female- Breast
Leading cause of cancer deaths - ANSWER✔✔-Male- lung and bronchus
Female- lung and bronchus
without shape or differentiation, small and round - ANSWER✔✔-Anaplastic
A Developmental gene expressed at an inappropriate time, capable of transforming a
normal cell into a cancer cell - ANSWER✔✔-Oncogene
cancer development; also called carcinogenesis - ANSWER✔✔-Oncogenisis
substances that change the activity of a cell's genes so that the cell becomes a cancer cell.
May be chemicals, physical agents, or viruses - ANSWER✔✔-Carcinogen
COMMON CARCINOGENS - ANSWER✔✔-Alcohol
Steroids
,Arsenic
Asbestos
Benzene
Chemotherapy drugs
Diesel exhaust
formaldehyde
new cell growth not needed for normal body growth - ANSWER✔✔-Neoplasm
new, nonmalignant cell growth not needed for normal body growth - ANSWER✔✔-
Benign neoplasm
cancerous, new growth of cells by invasion that is not needed for normal growth and
development - ANSWER✔✔-Malignant neoplasm
a tumor formed in a specific tissue as a result of a carcinogenic agent or event -
ANSWER✔✔-Primary tumor
a tumor formed as a result of breaking off from a primary tumor and spreading to
distant sites (metastisis) - ANSWER✔✔-Secondary tumor
cell division by exact duplication
-Most tissues and organs stop growing by cell division after development is complete -
ANSWER✔✔-Mitosis
, growth that causes tissue to increase in size by enlarging each cell-normal cells -
ANSWER✔✔-Hypertrophy
growth that causes tissue to increase in size by increasing the number of cells- cancer -
ANSWER✔✔-Hyperplasia
the amount of time it takes for a tumor to double in size by mitotic cell divisions -
ANSWER✔✔-Doubling time
the low white blood cell counts that occur after cancer chemotherapy- usually 7 to 10
days after administration - ANSWER✔✔-Nadir
chemicals that can cause tissue damage on direct contact - ANSWER✔✔-Vesicant
the period of time necessary for one cell to enter and complete one round of cell
division by mitosis - ANSWER✔✔-Generation time
Characteristics of normal cells - ANSWER✔✔--Limited cell division
1. to develop normal tissue
2. to replace lost or damaged normal tissue
to ensure that each organ has adequate number of cells at their functional peak -
ANSWER✔✔-Apoptosis
specific appearance, size, shape - ANSWER✔✔-Show specific morphology
Questions and Answers
Leading sites of new cancer cases - ANSWER✔✔-Male- prostate
Female- Breast
Leading cause of cancer deaths - ANSWER✔✔-Male- lung and bronchus
Female- lung and bronchus
without shape or differentiation, small and round - ANSWER✔✔-Anaplastic
A Developmental gene expressed at an inappropriate time, capable of transforming a
normal cell into a cancer cell - ANSWER✔✔-Oncogene
cancer development; also called carcinogenesis - ANSWER✔✔-Oncogenisis
substances that change the activity of a cell's genes so that the cell becomes a cancer cell.
May be chemicals, physical agents, or viruses - ANSWER✔✔-Carcinogen
COMMON CARCINOGENS - ANSWER✔✔-Alcohol
Steroids
,Arsenic
Asbestos
Benzene
Chemotherapy drugs
Diesel exhaust
formaldehyde
new cell growth not needed for normal body growth - ANSWER✔✔-Neoplasm
new, nonmalignant cell growth not needed for normal body growth - ANSWER✔✔-
Benign neoplasm
cancerous, new growth of cells by invasion that is not needed for normal growth and
development - ANSWER✔✔-Malignant neoplasm
a tumor formed in a specific tissue as a result of a carcinogenic agent or event -
ANSWER✔✔-Primary tumor
a tumor formed as a result of breaking off from a primary tumor and spreading to
distant sites (metastisis) - ANSWER✔✔-Secondary tumor
cell division by exact duplication
-Most tissues and organs stop growing by cell division after development is complete -
ANSWER✔✔-Mitosis
, growth that causes tissue to increase in size by enlarging each cell-normal cells -
ANSWER✔✔-Hypertrophy
growth that causes tissue to increase in size by increasing the number of cells- cancer -
ANSWER✔✔-Hyperplasia
the amount of time it takes for a tumor to double in size by mitotic cell divisions -
ANSWER✔✔-Doubling time
the low white blood cell counts that occur after cancer chemotherapy- usually 7 to 10
days after administration - ANSWER✔✔-Nadir
chemicals that can cause tissue damage on direct contact - ANSWER✔✔-Vesicant
the period of time necessary for one cell to enter and complete one round of cell
division by mitosis - ANSWER✔✔-Generation time
Characteristics of normal cells - ANSWER✔✔--Limited cell division
1. to develop normal tissue
2. to replace lost or damaged normal tissue
to ensure that each organ has adequate number of cells at their functional peak -
ANSWER✔✔-Apoptosis
specific appearance, size, shape - ANSWER✔✔-Show specific morphology
