NURS 5337 BREAST CANCER GYN SEX DYSFUNCTION
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
What systemic approach is used in evaluation concerns for breast
cancer? Ans✓✓✓history
- onset
- severity
- symptoms
Tenderness or size of mass changes during menses
Focused exam of lymph nodes:
- cervical
-supraclavicular
- infraclavicular
- axillary
Breast symmetry
Nipple discharge
Palpate breast for masses
When is a breast mass likely to be malignant? Ans✓✓✓- firm to hard
texture
- indistinct margins
- attached to underlying deep fascia or skin mass
- assess vascularity
,What type of imaging is helpful in classifying breast masses?
Ans✓✓✓Ultra sound is useful in detecting cystic lesions (simple,
septated, clustered cysts)
- lipomas
- sebaceous cysts
What diagnostic studies are used to diagnose a breast mass? Ans✓✓✓-
ultrasound.
- mammogram
- biopsy
99% chance mass is benign if imaging is negative
Based clinical suspicion, what other procedures can help rule out breast
malignancy? Ans✓✓✓- MRI
- excisional biopsy
The breast lesion is indeterminate, when should follow up be scheduled?
Ans✓✓✓3- 12 weeks
can be useful for those wishing to avoid invasive procedures
When should a patient return if the breast lesion has benign cause?
Ans✓✓✓6 to 12 months
, How should breast pain be interpreted? Ans✓✓✓- 50% of women
experience breast pain in their life
Percent of these women have the following
- 35% have sleep problems
- 41% have their sex life affected
- 66% correlates to menses
- breast pain is rarely associated with malignancy
List benign causes of breast pain Ans✓✓✓- Cystic lesions
- fibrocystic disease
- stretching of copper ligaments
- mastitis
- duct ectasia
- post surgical pain
List benign causes of nipple discharge Ans✓✓✓- hypothyroidism
- galactorrhea
- intraductal papilloma
- periductal mastitis
- duct ectasia
List benign causes of breast masses Ans✓✓✓- cyst
- fibroadenoma
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
What systemic approach is used in evaluation concerns for breast
cancer? Ans✓✓✓history
- onset
- severity
- symptoms
Tenderness or size of mass changes during menses
Focused exam of lymph nodes:
- cervical
-supraclavicular
- infraclavicular
- axillary
Breast symmetry
Nipple discharge
Palpate breast for masses
When is a breast mass likely to be malignant? Ans✓✓✓- firm to hard
texture
- indistinct margins
- attached to underlying deep fascia or skin mass
- assess vascularity
,What type of imaging is helpful in classifying breast masses?
Ans✓✓✓Ultra sound is useful in detecting cystic lesions (simple,
septated, clustered cysts)
- lipomas
- sebaceous cysts
What diagnostic studies are used to diagnose a breast mass? Ans✓✓✓-
ultrasound.
- mammogram
- biopsy
99% chance mass is benign if imaging is negative
Based clinical suspicion, what other procedures can help rule out breast
malignancy? Ans✓✓✓- MRI
- excisional biopsy
The breast lesion is indeterminate, when should follow up be scheduled?
Ans✓✓✓3- 12 weeks
can be useful for those wishing to avoid invasive procedures
When should a patient return if the breast lesion has benign cause?
Ans✓✓✓6 to 12 months
, How should breast pain be interpreted? Ans✓✓✓- 50% of women
experience breast pain in their life
Percent of these women have the following
- 35% have sleep problems
- 41% have their sex life affected
- 66% correlates to menses
- breast pain is rarely associated with malignancy
List benign causes of breast pain Ans✓✓✓- Cystic lesions
- fibrocystic disease
- stretching of copper ligaments
- mastitis
- duct ectasia
- post surgical pain
List benign causes of nipple discharge Ans✓✓✓- hypothyroidism
- galactorrhea
- intraductal papilloma
- periductal mastitis
- duct ectasia
List benign causes of breast masses Ans✓✓✓- cyst
- fibroadenoma
