CTR Exam Prep (LT practice exam) 2023/2024 with Complete Solutions

Patient with newly diagnosed breast cancer. Tumor was 3 cm in size, with five positive lymph nodes on axillary dissection. No other sites of cancer spread. According to TNM staging system, what stage of breast cancer is this? - ANSWER-Stage IIIA The histology code for renal cell carcinoma (conventional type) is: - ANSWER-8312/39 True or False: Pathologic N identifies the presence or absence of nodal metastasis of the tumor prior to the completion of surgical therapy. - ANSWER-False. The complete code for a neoplasm, including topography and morphology, contains how many characters? - ANSWER-10 The patient had a surgical resection for a 5.5 cm endometrial stromal sarcoma. The tumor extended to the parametrium. The regional nodes were negative. What is the T category? - ANSWER-T2a An anaplastic astrocytoma of the temporal lobe would be histology and site coded as: - ANSWER-9401/34, C71.2 What is the site-specific surgery code for the following: Extended lobectomy (extended: resection of a single lobe plus a segment of another lobe) - ANSWER-50 Code the primary site and histology in ICD-O-3 for the following diagnosis: "atypical heavily pigmented melanoma of the right forearm" - ANSWER-C44.6 8720/39 A patient was diagnosed as having centroblastic malignant lymphoma in April of last year. A biopsy five months later in the same area shows diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. What is the histology for this case? - ANSWER-9680/3 A patient with parotid gland cancer underwent a right superficial parotidectomy with facial nerve dissection/total parotidectomy. What is the correct code for "Surgical Procedure of Primary Site"? - ANSWER-42