Cancer

Question 1

3 types of cancer that have screenings

Answer 1

1. breast
2. bowel
3. cervical

Question 2

What is paraneoplastic syndrome

Answer 2

Clinical signs/ symptoms due to cancer, but no directly

Due to hormones/ cytokines secreted by tumour cells, or immune response against tumour

Question 3

Paraneoplastic features of small cell lung cancer

Answer 3

1. ADH
2. ACTH (more likely to get htn, hypokalemia, hypercalcaemia than buffalo hump)
3. Lambert-Eaton syndrome

Question 4

Paraneoplastic features of squamous cell lung cancer

Answer 4

1. Parathyroid hormone-related protein secretion -> hypercalcaemia
2. Clubbing
3. Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy
4. Ectopic TSH (leads to hyperthyroidism)