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Mammography Registry Review exam Q’s and A’s

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Mammography Registry Review exam Q’s and A’s
BSE involves - -Looking & feeling for changes in the breast

-CBE is a check of the breast by who? - -Qualified healthcare professional

-ACS recommends women 20 & older perform BSE - -Every month

-Women 20-39 should have a CBE how often? - -Every 3 years

-Women 40 & older should have screen mammo & CBE how often? - -Every year

-Thorough clinical exam will: - -Locate lumps/suspicious areas
Nipple changes
Skin changes in breast
Lymph nodes n armpit & above collarbone

-Medical/family history provides: - -Symptoms & risk factors for breast cancer & benign
breast conditions; questions about other health problems

-Effectiveness & sensitivity of mammogram ------- with age. - -Increases

-Average glandular dose of screen-film mammogram with grid - -0.1-0.2 rad

-Biggest risk factor for breast cancer - -Gender

-High risk factors - -Age
Genes-brCA1&2...
Close blood relative
Personal hx breast ca

-Moderate risk factors - -1st degree relative w breast ca
Atypical hyperplasia on biopsy
High rad dose to chest
High bone density after menopause

-Minor risk factors - -No child bearing or after 30
Not breast feeding
Early menarche/late menopause
Post menopausal obesity
Long term use HRT/contraceptive
Alcohol consumption
Obesity

-Examples of benign breast disease - -Painful cyst

,Nipple discharge
Only detected on mammo:
Ca+, circumscribed tumors, lesions, asymmetric densities, skin thickening

-2 main classes breast cancer - -Ductal
Lobular

-Most common breast cancer
90% all cases? - -Ductal carcinoma

-Stage 0 carcinoma, confined to duct - -DCIS

-Cancer has spread from ducts into surrounding stromal tissue & possibly pectoral fascia/
muscle - -Invasive/infiltrating Ductal carcinoma

-Lobular carcinoma accounts for --- to ----% all breast cancers - -5-10

-Not seen on mammo in 50% cases, abnormal cells grow w/in lobules not penetrating
lobule walls - -Lobular carcinoma in situ

-Difficult to perceive on mammo, may show as spider web or cause skin retraction - -
Invasive lobular carcinoma

-Other breast carcinomas account for less than 10% & have ----- prognosis than infiltrating
Ductal/lobular cancers - -Better

-Single most effective tool in detection breast cancer - -Mammogram

-Describe malignant asymmetric density on mammogram - -Speculated/stellate lesion w
solid central tumor & radiating structures

-Malignant circumscribed lesions - -Ill-defined & high density radiopaque, except few rare
are low density

-Ductal ca+ - -Granular or casting type Ca+ & usually appear in clusters

-2 types mammography screening - -Conventional-analog
Digital-w cassette or wo

-2 types digital detectors - -Direct
Indirect
(Both are cassette-less)

-Uses high frequency sound waves & based on pizoelectric effect - -U/S

-Highly vascular lesions are often - -Malignant

, -MRI based on magnetic properties of ----- ------- in the body. - -Hydrogen atoms

---------- --------- ----------- involves injecting contrast while breast is under compression - -
Contrast digital mammography

-Dual energy subtraction used for what 3 reasons? - -Enhance masses
Eliminate obscuring structures
Separate soft tissue from contrast or Ca+ deposits

-3 types nuclear medicine studies used w/mammography - -PET
Breast scintigraphy
Lymphoscintigraphy

-PET imaging uses ------ based on the need that cancer cells have for sugar - -FDG-
fluorodeoxyglucose

-Breast scintigraphy aka -------
Or by the trade name -------. - -Scintimammography
Miraluma

-Breast scintigraphy uses what isotope? What kind of camera? - -Tc-99m sestamibi
Gamma

-_______ can be used to reduce blind dissection of axillary nodes & resultant side effects - -
Lymphoscintigraphy

-Lymphoscintigraphy aka - -Sentinel node mapping

-Lymphoscintigraphy uses injection of radio isotope where? - -Around the tumor

-Principle behind Lymphoscintigraphy - -First node, sentinel node, receives drainage from
a tumor & can be used to predict presence or absence of tumor in remaining nodes

-Technology that uses 11 low dose images taken during 7-11 seconds; x-ray tube rotates
50 deg. arc around breast - -Digital tomosynthesis

-which technology produces high resolution 3D , cross section images of breast? - -Digital
tomosynthesis

-CT laser mammography based on what principle? - -angiogenesis

-______ involves removal of content of cyst and is often performed under u/s guidance - -
cyst aspiration

-FNA ideal for cyst eval. and aspiration. Uses ___ to ____ gauge needle - -22-25

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