INTRO TO RADIATION THERAPY -
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
The patient - Correct Answers -What is the main focus of a radiation therapist?
to deliver the maximum amount of radiation needed to kill the cancer, while sparing the
normal surrounding tissue - Correct Answers -What is the primary goal of radiation
therapy?
Abnormal proliferation & Somatic cells - Correct Answers -Tumors are the result of what
two things?
G0 phase - Correct Answers -Most cells that make up tissue and organs are in what
phase of the cell cycle?
S phase - Correct Answers -What phase of the cell cycle are cells most resistant to
radiation?
G2 & M Phases - Correct Answers -What phase of the cell cycle are cells most
vulnerable to radiation?
rapidly dividing - Correct Answers -Cells that are __________ are more sensitive to
radiation.
G1 phase - Correct Answers -What cell phase is characterized by rapid growth and
metabolism?
Sarcomas - Correct Answers -Tumors from the mesenchymal cells are known as what?
Carcinomas - Correct Answers -Tumors from the epithelium cells are known as what?
Mesenchymal tissue - Correct Answers -Blood and lymph are considered what type of
tissue?
Squamous cell carcinoma - Correct Answers -oral cavity
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma - Correct Answers -Breast
,Adenocarcinoma - Correct Answers -colon & rectum
Astrocytoma - Correct Answers -Brain
1. Providing quality care
2. Patient education
3. Making referrals when needed
4. Daily patient assessments - Correct Answers -what are the four main responsibilities
of a radiation therapist?
Blood, Phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. - Correct Answers -what are the four main
body humors?
Hipocrates - Correct Answers -Who proposed humoral theory?
1. Blood
2. Nutrients
3. oxygen - Correct Answers -when a tumor grows larger, the lack of what three things
leads to necrosis?
Black bile - Correct Answers -excess of what humor indicated cancer?
Somatic cells - Correct Answers -What cell type both promotes and suppresses growth?
Oncogenes - Correct Answers -what are the abnormal genes that regulate the
development and growth of cancerous tissues?
Proto-oncogense - Correct Answers -What are the precursors to oncogense?
Location - Correct Answers -The __________ of a benign tumor may case it to be
classified as behaviorally malignant.
Chondroma - Correct Answers -benign tumor of cartilage
In Situ Cancer - Correct Answers -Early forms of cancer are called what?
1. Prostate
2. Colorectal
3. Lung - Correct Answers -What are the three most common types of cancer in men?
1. Breast
2. Colorectal
3. Lung - Correct Answers -What are the three most common types of cancer in
women?
, 1. Cigarette smoking
2. HPV virus
3. Alcohol
4. Sun exposure - Correct Answers -What are the 4 etiology risk factors?
Early detection & Diagnosis - Correct Answers -What two factors are key to successful
cancer treatment?
Mutation - Correct Answers -What type of conversion between proto-oncogenes to
oncogenes occur by "Change in the structure of a gene"?
1. Endometrium
2. Colon
3. Rectum
4. Prostate - Correct Answers -What are the most common sites of adenocarcinomas?
poorly differentiated or Undifferentiated - Correct Answers -a cell with only a few
characteristics of the originating cell is called what?
AJCC & UICC - Correct Answers -Who created the TNM model system?
Squamous cell carcinoma - Correct Answers -The most common histology associated
with the oral cavity is what?
1. Fatigue
2. Skin Erythemia - Correct Answers -What are the two most common side effects of
radiation therapy treatment of the breast?
1. Better cosmetic results
2. Preservation of function - Correct Answers -What are the two main benefits to
radiation therapy treatments?
Death rates - Correct Answers -Cancer death rates have _______ in the past 20 years.
Epidemiology - Correct Answers -the study of disease incidence rate
etiology - Correct Answers -the study of the cause of disease
Radio-sensitizer - Correct Answers -Doxorubicin is considered a what?
Outward - Correct Answers -Exophytic tumors grow ________
Humors - Correct Answers -in early history, it was believed that a balance of what was
required for good health?
Genetic - Correct Answers -Cancer is classified as what kind of disease?
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
The patient - Correct Answers -What is the main focus of a radiation therapist?
to deliver the maximum amount of radiation needed to kill the cancer, while sparing the
normal surrounding tissue - Correct Answers -What is the primary goal of radiation
therapy?
Abnormal proliferation & Somatic cells - Correct Answers -Tumors are the result of what
two things?
G0 phase - Correct Answers -Most cells that make up tissue and organs are in what
phase of the cell cycle?
S phase - Correct Answers -What phase of the cell cycle are cells most resistant to
radiation?
G2 & M Phases - Correct Answers -What phase of the cell cycle are cells most
vulnerable to radiation?
rapidly dividing - Correct Answers -Cells that are __________ are more sensitive to
radiation.
G1 phase - Correct Answers -What cell phase is characterized by rapid growth and
metabolism?
Sarcomas - Correct Answers -Tumors from the mesenchymal cells are known as what?
Carcinomas - Correct Answers -Tumors from the epithelium cells are known as what?
Mesenchymal tissue - Correct Answers -Blood and lymph are considered what type of
tissue?
Squamous cell carcinoma - Correct Answers -oral cavity
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma - Correct Answers -Breast
,Adenocarcinoma - Correct Answers -colon & rectum
Astrocytoma - Correct Answers -Brain
1. Providing quality care
2. Patient education
3. Making referrals when needed
4. Daily patient assessments - Correct Answers -what are the four main responsibilities
of a radiation therapist?
Blood, Phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. - Correct Answers -what are the four main
body humors?
Hipocrates - Correct Answers -Who proposed humoral theory?
1. Blood
2. Nutrients
3. oxygen - Correct Answers -when a tumor grows larger, the lack of what three things
leads to necrosis?
Black bile - Correct Answers -excess of what humor indicated cancer?
Somatic cells - Correct Answers -What cell type both promotes and suppresses growth?
Oncogenes - Correct Answers -what are the abnormal genes that regulate the
development and growth of cancerous tissues?
Proto-oncogense - Correct Answers -What are the precursors to oncogense?
Location - Correct Answers -The __________ of a benign tumor may case it to be
classified as behaviorally malignant.
Chondroma - Correct Answers -benign tumor of cartilage
In Situ Cancer - Correct Answers -Early forms of cancer are called what?
1. Prostate
2. Colorectal
3. Lung - Correct Answers -What are the three most common types of cancer in men?
1. Breast
2. Colorectal
3. Lung - Correct Answers -What are the three most common types of cancer in
women?
, 1. Cigarette smoking
2. HPV virus
3. Alcohol
4. Sun exposure - Correct Answers -What are the 4 etiology risk factors?
Early detection & Diagnosis - Correct Answers -What two factors are key to successful
cancer treatment?
Mutation - Correct Answers -What type of conversion between proto-oncogenes to
oncogenes occur by "Change in the structure of a gene"?
1. Endometrium
2. Colon
3. Rectum
4. Prostate - Correct Answers -What are the most common sites of adenocarcinomas?
poorly differentiated or Undifferentiated - Correct Answers -a cell with only a few
characteristics of the originating cell is called what?
AJCC & UICC - Correct Answers -Who created the TNM model system?
Squamous cell carcinoma - Correct Answers -The most common histology associated
with the oral cavity is what?
1. Fatigue
2. Skin Erythemia - Correct Answers -What are the two most common side effects of
radiation therapy treatment of the breast?
1. Better cosmetic results
2. Preservation of function - Correct Answers -What are the two main benefits to
radiation therapy treatments?
Death rates - Correct Answers -Cancer death rates have _______ in the past 20 years.
Epidemiology - Correct Answers -the study of disease incidence rate
etiology - Correct Answers -the study of the cause of disease
Radio-sensitizer - Correct Answers -Doxorubicin is considered a what?
Outward - Correct Answers -Exophytic tumors grow ________
Humors - Correct Answers -in early history, it was believed that a balance of what was
required for good health?
Genetic - Correct Answers -Cancer is classified as what kind of disease?
