Chapter 13- Hematologic disorders (neoplastic) Flashcards
What disease? Most people with _______ have too many red blood cells. But it can also cause you to have too many white blood cells and platelets.
polycythemia vera
*too many cells, but the cell are normal otherwise
Age group affected by polycythemia vera
~ 60 year old, no sex predilection
An acquired mutation of _____ is present in ___% of patients with polycythemia vera
JAK2 mutation
>95%
40% of patients have generalized pruritis w/o rash in what condition?
polycythemia vera
What is the term for a painful burning sensation, erythema, and warmth of hands and feet….Can lead to gangrene…occurs in polycythemia vera
Erythromelalgia
Patients with polycythemia vera experience _____ hemorrhage, _____ thrombus formation
increased hemorrhage
increased thrombus formation
Treatment for polycythemia vera
- phlebotomy of 500ml every other day until hematocrit is 45%
- aspirin
- megakaryocyte inhibitor
- hydroxyurea: myelosuppressive agent
___ to ___% of patients with polycythemia vera develop acute leukemia
2-10%
____% of all cancers in the US are leukemia and ____% of all cancer deaths
- 9
4. 1
Genetic disorders predisposed to leukemia (8)
- Down syndrome
- Bloom syndrome: causes problems with DNA repair, resulting in a high number of chromosome breaks and rearrangements.
- NF1
- Schwachman syndrome: malabsorption, pancreatic insufficiency, impaired bone marrow fn, skeletal abnormalities
- Ataxia-telangiectasia syndrome
- Klinefelter syndrome
- Fanconi anemia
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: X-linked recessive disease characterized by eczema, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), immune deficiency, and bloody diarrhea
genetic mutation in CML(chronic myeloid leukemia)
philadelphia chromosome
translocation 9;22
BCR-ABL fusion oncogene
precursor disease to acute myeloid leukemia
myelodysplasia syndromes
virus associated with t-cell leukemia/lymphoma
HTLV-1
human t cell leukemia/lymphoma virus 1
Prevalence of all leukemia
13:100,000
T/F Males are affected more than female with leukemia
true
AML:
Age group
median survival
broad age range including children
- 40% 5 yr survival <60 yr old
- 10% >60
CML:
Age group
median survival
3rd-4th decades
-80% 5 year survival, TKIs and BM transplant
CML: indolent period followed by blast transformation which results in death in ____
3-6 months
ALL:
Age group
median survival
Acute LymphoBlastic Leukemia
predominantly children
90% curable in children
worse prognosis in adults
CLL:
Age group
median survival
Chronic LymphoCytic Leukemia (MOST COMMON TYPE OF LEUKEMIA)
older adults
variable course 2-10+ year survival
crowding out of normal blood cells in the marrow by malignant or other proliferation
Myelophthisic anemia
Term for tumor like growths of leukemic cells
myeloid sarcoma
another name for a leukemic infiltrate in soft tissue. Called this because the tissue looks green.
chloroma
_______ is high doses of chemo agents to try to induce remission…What % of CML patients will be resistant to imatinib?
induction chemotherapy….33%