AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Colorectal: s/sx - ✔✔-rectal bleeding
-anemia
-changes in tool consistency
-mahogany (dark) colored or bright red stools
✔✔colorectal cancer: Assess - ✔✔-stool output
-changes to stool
-blood in stool
*new onset constipation can suggest advanced disease
✔✔colorectal cancer: interventions - ✔✔-screen
-surgical resection of colon; possible colostomy/ileostomy
-chemo
✔✔Prostate cancer: Risk - ✔✔-advanced age
-black men
-genetic (BRCA2 gene)
✔✔Prostate cancer: Screening - ✔✔PSA (prostate specific antigen); simple blood draw;
between the ages of 55-69
, -only if at high risk
✔✔Prostate cancer: Assess - ✔✔-urine output
-hematuria
-nocturia
✔✔Prostate cancer: Interventions - ✔✔-TURP (if obstruction occurs)
-chemo (metastasis)
-external radiation
✔✔Testicular cancer: Risks - ✔✔-men age 20-35
-white men
-genetic
-cryptorchidism (nondescended testicle)
-HIV
✔✔Testicular cancer: Screening - ✔✔self exam
✔✔Testicular cancer: Hallmark sign - ✔✔painless, hard, swelling/enlargement of testicle
(unilateral)
✔✔Testicular cancer: Interventions - ✔✔surgical removal
chemo
radiation
✔✔cervical cancer: risks - ✔✔-HPV virus
-smoking
-multiple partners
✔✔Cervical cancer: hallmark sign - ✔✔painless vaginal bleeding
✔✔Cervical cancer: screening - ✔✔pap test every 3 years for women of childbearing
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✔✔Cervical cancer: assess - ✔✔-vaginal discharge (painless vaginal bleeding)
-sexual hx
-vaccine
-screening hx
✔✔cervical cancer: Interventions - ✔✔-vaccinate boys and girls for HPV; 3 vaccines;
puberty age
-screen for it
-removal of cancerous/pre-cancerous cells (cervical scraping, hysterectomy with vaginal
resection)
-brachytherapy (internal radiation)