Cancer Buzz Words Flashcards

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Cancer Buzz Words

Auer rods, pseudo-Pelger-Huet cells

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AML

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Cancer Buzz Words

Signet ring cells

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Diffuse gastric adenocarcinoma

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Cancer Buzz Words

Leather bottle appearance

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Linitus Plastica

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Reed-Sternberg cells (multiple nuclei within cell)

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Hodgkin’s lymphoma

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Cancer Buzz Words

Psammoma bodies

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Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid

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Cancer Buzz Words

Orphan Annie nuclei

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Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid

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Cancer Buzz Words

Philadelphia chromosome, middle age, gout

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CML

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Krukenberg tumours

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Ovarian metastases from gastric adenocarcinoma

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Cancer Buzz Words

‘Starry sky’ lymph node biopsy + EBV

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Burkitt’s lymphoma

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Cancer Buzz Words

Rouleaux formation

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Multiple myeloma

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Cancer Buzz Words

Bence Jones protein (+ CRAB)

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Multiple myeloma

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12
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Cancer Buzz Words

CD38 & CD138

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Multiple myeloma

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13
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Cancer Buzz Words

Large abnormal platelets, blast cells and other progenitors

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CML

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Cancer Buzz Words

Episodic headache + sweating + tachycardic

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Phaeochromocytoma

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Lacunar cells

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Nodular sclerosing HL

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16
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Cancer Buzz Words

Smear cells & CD23, CD5

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CLL

17
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Cancer Buzz Words

Immunoreactive to CD30 or CD15

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Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

18
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Cancer Buzz Words

PSA

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Prostate cancer

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Cancer Buzz Words

CA15-3, CA27-29

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Breast Cancer

20
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Cancer Buzz Words

CA125

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Ovarian cancer (rarely breast/lung/GI/endometriosis)

21
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Cancer Buzz Words

CA19-9

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Pancreatic cancer

22
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Cancer Buzz Words

CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen)

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Colorectal cancer (also Cervical/ovarian, breast, lung)

23
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Cancer Buzz Words

beta-hCG

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Seminoma or Teratoma

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Cancer Buzz Words

alpha-fetoprotein

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HCC (and testicular germ-cell tumour)

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Cancer Buzz Words

CD8 & CD3, CD45

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T-cytotoxic cell (CD45 = all leucocytes, CD3 = all T cells)

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Cancer Buzz Words

CD4 & CD3. CD45

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T-helper cell

27
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Cancer Buzz Words

CD19& CD20 & CD45

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B Cell

28
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Cancer Buzz Words

Ashkenazi Jews

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Breast cancer

29
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Cancer Buzz Words

Diffuse mammogram calcifications

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Dcis

30
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Cancer Buzz Words

Glands of varying size, loss of myoepithelium

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Infiltrating ductal carcinoma