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Cancer Buzz Words

Auer rods, pseudo-Pelger-Huet cells

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AML

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Signet ring cells

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Diffuse gastric adenocarcinoma

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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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Psammoma bodies

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Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid

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Orphan Annie nuclei

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Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid

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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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‘Starry sky’ lymph node biopsy + EBV

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Burkitt’s lymphoma

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Rouleaux formation

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Multiple myeloma

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Bence Jones protein (+ CRAB)

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Multiple myeloma

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CD38 & CD138

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Multiple myeloma

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Large abnormal platelets, blast cells and other progenitors

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CML

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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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Smear cells & CD23, CD5

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Immunoreactive to CD30 or CD15

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Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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PSA

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Prostate cancer

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CA15-3, CA27-29

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Breast Cancer

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CA125

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

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CA19-9

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Pancreatic cancer

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CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen)

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

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beta-hCG

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Seminoma or Teratoma

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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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CD4 & CD3. CD45

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T-helper cell

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CD19& CD20 & CD45

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Cancer Buzz Words

Ashkenazi Jews

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Breast cancer

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Diffuse mammogram calcifications

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Glands of varying size, loss of myoepithelium

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Infiltrating ductal carcinoma

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