Portage Learning Pathophysiology Module 2-2.5 Clinical manifestations, Diagnostics, and treatments Exam with solutions

Portage Learning Pathophysiology Module | | |




2-2.5 Clinical manifestations, Diagnostics,
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and treatments Exam with solutions
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Clinical manifestations overview - Correct answer ✔Tissue
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Fluid

Wasting

Fatigue

Anemia

Unrelated



What happens to Tissue in clinical manifestations? - Correct answer ✔Cancer
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disrupts the integrity of tissues
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What happens when cancer disrupts the integrity of tissues? - Correct answer
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✔Bleeding when blood vessels are compressed or eroded causing ulceration
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and necrosis
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What is sometimes the first sign of cancer? - Correct answer ✔Bleeding, as seen
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in colorectal cancer. Cancer may present as a growth or sore that does not heal
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,Fluid clinical manifestations - Correct answer ✔The development of unusual
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amounts of fluid in the pleural, pericardial, or peritoneal spaces can be initial
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signs of some cancers
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What are Pleural effusions? - Correct answer ✔Sometimes called " water in the
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lungs" is the build-up of excess fluid between the layers pleura outside the lungs
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Pleural effusions is often seen where? - Correct answer ✔Lungs, breast and
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lymphomas



What do people feel with Pleural effusions? - Correct answer ✔Chest pain,
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shortness of breath or cough | | | |




Ovarian cancer can present with fluid where? - Correct answer ✔In the
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peritoneal cavity, evidenced by abdominal discomfort or swelling
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Wasting Clinical manifestations - Correct answer ✔Many cancers are
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associated with wieght loss and wasting of body fat and muscle tissue
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Cancer wasting can cause what? - Correct answer ✔Weakness, anorexia, and
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anemia



Anorexia-cachexia syndrome is what? - Correct answer ✔A wasting syndrome. | | | | | | | | | |




Decreased eating and lack of appetite are common, but the extend of weight
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loss and protein wasting goes beyond reduced food intake
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, Wasting is a significant cause of what? - Correct answer ✔Morbidity and
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mortality especially in people with advanced disease
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Fatigue clinical manifestation - Correct answer ✔Two frequent side effects of
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cancer are fatigue and sleep disturbances
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A side effect of cancer treatment is what? - Correct answer ✔Feeling tired,
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weak, and lacking energy
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Anemia clinical manifestation - Correct answer ✔Anemia may occur possibly
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due to the effects of the treatment or because of blood loss, hemolysis, or
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impaired red blood cell production. | | | |




What is commonly seen in people with cancer? - Correct answer ✔An
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insufficient level of healthy blood cells | | | | |




Cancer related anemia can also cause what? - Correct answer ✔Less effective
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treatments, increased mortality, increased blood transfusions and decreased
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performance and quality of life | | | |




Cancer-related anemia can be treated with what? - Correct answer | | | | | | | | | |




✔Recombinant human erythropoietin (drug) | | |




Unrelated clinical manifestations: paraneoplastic syndromes - Correct answer
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✔Cancer can also produce symptoms in sites not directly affected by the
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disease. Some are caused by hormones secreted by the disease
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