PATH 370 - Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers
The cellular response indicative of injury due to faulty intracellular accumulation
metabolism is
Hydropic swelling
Lactate production
Metaplasia
Intracellular accumulations
After surgery to remove a lung tumor, your patient is kill rapidly dividing cells
scheduled for chemotherapy, which will
Selectively kill tumor cells
Stimulate immune cells to fight the cancer
Have minimal side effects
Kill rapidly dividing cells
All these cellular responses are potentially reversible Necrosis
except
Necrosis
Metaplasia
Atrophy
Hyperplasia
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
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
, PATH 370 - Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers
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
d. help identify progression of cancer. tissue of origin also produce them. Tumor markers include prostatic-specific
e. include prostatic-specific antigen. antigen. Some 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
a. chemotherapy. marrow suppression may be because of invasion of blood-forming cells in the
b. cancer cells. bone marrow, poor nutrition, and chemotherapeutic agents. By contrast,
c. cancer metastasis to bone marrow. immunotherapy is a method of harnessing the immune system in the treatment of
d. immunotherapy. cancer.
e. malnutrition.
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
Many of the responses to stress are attributed to norepinephrine
activation of the sympathetic nervous system and are
mediated by
Norepinephrine
Cortisol
Glucagon
ACTH
Selye's three phases of the stress response include all of Allostasis
the following except
Allostasis
Resistance
Alarm
Exhaustion
Side effect of chemotherapy include (select all that Anemia
apply) Nausea
Bleeding
Anemia Infection
Nausea
Leukocytosis
Bleeding
Infection
, PATH 370 - Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers
A patient with high blood pressure who is otherwise Secondary prevention
healthy is counseled to restrict sodium intake. This is an
example of
Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention
Disease treatment
Necrotic death of brain tissue usually produces _____ Liquefactive
necrosis.
Coagulative
Caseous
Liquefactive
Fat
3 year old boy who exhibits prolonged bleeding after Hemophilia
minor trauma and a prolonged aPTT, nut a normal
platelet count, is likely to be diagnosed with
Hemophilia
Liver dysfunction
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Thrombocytopenia
Dysfunction of which organ would lead to clotting factor Liver
deficiency?
Liver
Kidney
Spleen
Pancreas
A low mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration Iron deficiency
(MCHC) and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) are
characteristic of which type of anemia?
Vitamin b12 deficiency
Folate deficiency
Iron deficiency
Erythropoietin deficiency
The principle Ig mediator of type 1 hypersensitivity IgE
reactions is
IgA
IgG
IgM
IgE
Most of the carbon dioxide in the blood is transported as Bicarbonate ion
Carboxyhemoglobin
Bicarbonate ion
Dissolved carbon dioxide
Carbonic acid
The Philadelphia chromosome is a balanced Bcr-abl
chromosome translocation that forms a new gene called
Bcr-abl
Rob
p53
ARA-c
Which form of leukemia demonstrates the presence of CML (chronic myeloid leukemia)
the Philadelphia chromosome?
The cellular response indicative of injury due to faulty intracellular accumulation
metabolism is
Hydropic swelling
Lactate production
Metaplasia
Intracellular accumulations
After surgery to remove a lung tumor, your patient is kill rapidly dividing cells
scheduled for chemotherapy, which will
Selectively kill tumor cells
Stimulate immune cells to fight the cancer
Have minimal side effects
Kill rapidly dividing cells
All these cellular responses are potentially reversible Necrosis
except
Necrosis
Metaplasia
Atrophy
Hyperplasia
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
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
, PATH 370 - Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers
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
d. help identify progression of cancer. tissue of origin also produce them. Tumor markers include prostatic-specific
e. include prostatic-specific antigen. antigen. Some 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
a. chemotherapy. marrow suppression may be because of invasion of blood-forming cells in the
b. cancer cells. bone marrow, poor nutrition, and chemotherapeutic agents. By contrast,
c. cancer metastasis to bone marrow. immunotherapy is a method of harnessing the immune system in the treatment of
d. immunotherapy. cancer.
e. malnutrition.
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
Many of the responses to stress are attributed to norepinephrine
activation of the sympathetic nervous system and are
mediated by
Norepinephrine
Cortisol
Glucagon
ACTH
Selye's three phases of the stress response include all of Allostasis
the following except
Allostasis
Resistance
Alarm
Exhaustion
Side effect of chemotherapy include (select all that Anemia
apply) Nausea
Bleeding
Anemia Infection
Nausea
Leukocytosis
Bleeding
Infection
, PATH 370 - Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers
A patient with high blood pressure who is otherwise Secondary prevention
healthy is counseled to restrict sodium intake. This is an
example of
Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention
Disease treatment
Necrotic death of brain tissue usually produces _____ Liquefactive
necrosis.
Coagulative
Caseous
Liquefactive
Fat
3 year old boy who exhibits prolonged bleeding after Hemophilia
minor trauma and a prolonged aPTT, nut a normal
platelet count, is likely to be diagnosed with
Hemophilia
Liver dysfunction
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Thrombocytopenia
Dysfunction of which organ would lead to clotting factor Liver
deficiency?
Liver
Kidney
Spleen
Pancreas
A low mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration Iron deficiency
(MCHC) and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) are
characteristic of which type of anemia?
Vitamin b12 deficiency
Folate deficiency
Iron deficiency
Erythropoietin deficiency
The principle Ig mediator of type 1 hypersensitivity IgE
reactions is
IgA
IgG
IgM
IgE
Most of the carbon dioxide in the blood is transported as Bicarbonate ion
Carboxyhemoglobin
Bicarbonate ion
Dissolved carbon dioxide
Carbonic acid
The Philadelphia chromosome is a balanced Bcr-abl
chromosome translocation that forms a new gene called
Bcr-abl
Rob
p53
ARA-c
Which form of leukemia demonstrates the presence of CML (chronic myeloid leukemia)
the Philadelphia chromosome?
