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NWHSU PDX Final Exam Questions
and Answers (100% Pass)
What are 5 Breast Cancer Risk Ominous Signs?
✓ 1.) Edema of breast or arm
✓ 2.) Ulcerations of the skin
✓ 3.) Chest wall fixation
✓ 4.) Axillary Node fixated
✓ 5.) Evidence of metastasis
Define Nulliparous
✓ Never given birth
Breast Cancer Risk Factors
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✓ - Family history in mother or sister
✓ - Over 50
✓ - Nulliparous
✓ - First child after 30
✓ - Never breast fed
✓ - Over 40% over ideal weight
✓ - Late sexual maturity
✓ - Late menopause
How often should women get CBE's (Clinical Breast Exams)?
✓ - Age 20-40 - every 3 years
✓ - Age 40+ - Don't do them due to so many changes in the breast.
How often should mammograms be done?
✓ - Up to age 50 don't do them unless there is a family history of breast
CA
✓ - Biannually between the ages of 50 and 74
The breast is divided into 5 sections. What are they?
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✓ 1.) Upper inner
✓ 2.) Lower inner
✓ 3.) Upper outer
✓ 4.) Lower outer
✓ 5.) Tail of Spence
Circular, darker pigmented area around the nipple of
the breast
✓ Areola
Small sebaceous glands located on the areola of the
breast
✓ Montgomery Glands
The major muscles underlying the breast
✓ Pectoralis Muscles
Suspensory ligaments of the breast
✓ Cooper Ligaments
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-Upper outer tail of the breast that extends into the
axillary region
-A common area of breast disorders (cancer)
✓ Tail (of Spence)
What are you observing for during breast inspection?
✓ - Contour
✓ - Color
✓ - Pores - if enlarged = sign of CA
✓ - Venus patterns
What are the 5 D's of Nipples
✓ 1.) Discharge
✓ 2.) Discoloration
✓ 3.) Depression or Inversion
✓ 5.) Dermacological changes
✓ 6.) Deviation
A blue-black hue or color of the areola/mucous membrane is indicative of
what?
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NWHSU PDX Final Exam Questions
and Answers (100% Pass)
What are 5 Breast Cancer Risk Ominous Signs?
✓ 1.) Edema of breast or arm
✓ 2.) Ulcerations of the skin
✓ 3.) Chest wall fixation
✓ 4.) Axillary Node fixated
✓ 5.) Evidence of metastasis
Define Nulliparous
✓ Never given birth
Breast Cancer Risk Factors
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✓ - Family history in mother or sister
✓ - Over 50
✓ - Nulliparous
✓ - First child after 30
✓ - Never breast fed
✓ - Over 40% over ideal weight
✓ - Late sexual maturity
✓ - Late menopause
How often should women get CBE's (Clinical Breast Exams)?
✓ - Age 20-40 - every 3 years
✓ - Age 40+ - Don't do them due to so many changes in the breast.
How often should mammograms be done?
✓ - Up to age 50 don't do them unless there is a family history of breast
CA
✓ - Biannually between the ages of 50 and 74
The breast is divided into 5 sections. What are they?
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✓ 1.) Upper inner
✓ 2.) Lower inner
✓ 3.) Upper outer
✓ 4.) Lower outer
✓ 5.) Tail of Spence
Circular, darker pigmented area around the nipple of
the breast
✓ Areola
Small sebaceous glands located on the areola of the
breast
✓ Montgomery Glands
The major muscles underlying the breast
✓ Pectoralis Muscles
Suspensory ligaments of the breast
✓ Cooper Ligaments
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-Upper outer tail of the breast that extends into the
axillary region
-A common area of breast disorders (cancer)
✓ Tail (of Spence)
What are you observing for during breast inspection?
✓ - Contour
✓ - Color
✓ - Pores - if enlarged = sign of CA
✓ - Venus patterns
What are the 5 D's of Nipples
✓ 1.) Discharge
✓ 2.) Discoloration
✓ 3.) Depression or Inversion
✓ 5.) Dermacological changes
✓ 6.) Deviation
A blue-black hue or color of the areola/mucous membrane is indicative of
what?
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