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What is the most common Type of cancer?

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Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in both sexes

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What is the most common cancers for each respective gender?

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○ In females, breast cancer is the second most common fatal cancer
○ In males, prostate cancer fatality is the most common of all cancers

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Oncology

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the study of neoplasms

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Benign

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not capable of metastasizing and usually not capable of causing death

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Malignant

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capable of metastasizing and capable of causing death

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Neoplasm

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an uncontrolled growth of new cells, benign or malignant

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Tumor

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literally, as mass: however everyday language, a neoplasm

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Cancer

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any kind of malignant neoplasm

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Carcinoma

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○ a malignant neoplasm of mesenchymal tissue.
○ Bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, or fibrous tissue.

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Adenoma

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benign tumor of a gland

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Adenocarcinoma

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malignant tumor of gland epithelium

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Fibrosarcoma

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malignant tumor of fibrous tissue

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What is the difference b/n Benign and Malignant neoplasm?

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○ Benign neoplasms grow slowly
○ Malignant neoplasm grow rapidly and are capable of causing death

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What causes neoplasms?

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Damaged DNA is the root cause

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What is the detectable size of a neoplasm?

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1 gram

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Malignant cells do not spread unless ?

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they are able to invade lymphatic channels or blood vessels

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The most common genetic defect in human cancer is

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mutation of complete loss of the p53 gene –regulates apoptosis

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Retinoblastoma

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appears as a white mass arising from the retina

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DNA Repair

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If the DNA repair system is damaged misspelled DNA remains defective and prone to promote cancer

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Xeroderma pigmentosa

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○ a skin disorder with a predisposition to development of skin cancer
○ caused by faulty DNA repair

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Causes of Cancer

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○ a transformation of cells (carcinogenesis) that follows injuries that produce direct damage to DNA (mutagenesis)
○ Chemicals, ionizing radiation, and viruses can be responsible

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Most common viral cancer causers

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○ Human papilloma virus (HPV)
○ Epstein Barr virus (EBV)
○ Hepatitis B (HBV)

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Benign neoplasms: shape and structure

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○ slow growing and have rounded, smooth outline
○ smooth outline with a rim of compressed fibrous tissue at the edge (a fibrous capsule)

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Malignant neoplasms: shape and structure

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○ irregular, with fingers of tumors invading adjacent tissue
○ the cut surface has a varied appearance

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polyp
a mass that protrudes from an epithelial surface
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All neoplasms have two basic components
○ parenchyma, which is the neoplastic tissue ○ the stroma, a non-neoplastic supporting network of blood vessels and fibrous tissue
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Structural differences of benign and malignant tumors
○ Benign neoplasms may reproduce tissue recognizably close to normal tissue ○ Malignant nuclei are large and dark because of the presence of excess DNA – a feature called hyperchromatism
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Dysplasia
○ a pre-malignant state of tissue (usually epithelium) that is atypical and clearly abnormal but not yet malignant ○ does not always progress to malignancy
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carcinoma in situ
○ a tissue state that is literally cancer “in place”. ○ Developed by dysplasia
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Once carcinoma invades below the basement membrane it is no longer in situ; it is
○ Invasive ○ invasive malignancies can metastasize
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Neoplasms make themselves known by
local pressure effect exerted by the expanding mass of the primary tumor
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degree of differentiation of a neoplasm
the degree to which a neoplasm resembles normal tissue in function and appearance
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Tumor cells reproduce by forming
○ A clone ○ Identical cells that descend from a single ancestor
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All tumor cells are
Monoclonal
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Speed Of Tumor Growth
○ It takes far longer for a normal cell to become malignant than for any other stage of tumor growth ○ 30 generations (30 doublings) for a mass to grow large enough, about the size of a grape (about 1 gram)
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Lymphomas and leukemias grow more rapidly than most other tumors because
they have high growth fractions
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Nourishment of Tumors
Neoplasms develop their own network of blood vessels
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As the tumor grows
the clone cells diverges into lines with different characteristics
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Tumors that require - are vulnerable to therapy that -
○ require hormone ○ reduces hormone availability
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Invasiveness
○ the ability of a neoplasm to invade tissue ○ especially basement membrane, blood vessels, lymphatics
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The most feared feature of any malignancy is its
ability to spread by direct invasion of blood vessel
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Sarcomas have a propensity for
vascular invasion and widespread metastasis
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Carcinomas tend to
invade lymphatics first and metastasize to local lymph nodes
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Cytology
the diagnostic study of individual cells for evidence of cancer or other abnormality
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Papanicolaou (Pap) smear
screen for cervical cancer
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Fine needle aspirate
sometimes under radiological guidance
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Biopsy
collection of tissue for diagnosis by surgical excision
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in order to treat cancers appropriately
Cancers are graded and staged
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Typical grade I cancers
○ (low grade) ○ least aggressive microscopic appearance
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Grade II cancers
intermediate
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Grade III (high grade)
○ appear to be the most aggressive ○ poorly differentiated and highly atypical
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Prostate-specific antigen (PSA)
○ a protein produced by cells of the prostate gland. ○ PSA test measures the level of PSA in the blood.
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CEA
○ used mainly to monitor the treatment of cancer patients, especially those with colon cancer. ○ used as a marker for other forms of cancer, including cancers of the rectum, lung, breast, liver, pancreas stomach, and ovary
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CA 15-3
○ not sensitive or specific enough to be considered useful as a tool for cancer screening ○ main use is to monitor a person's response to breast cancer treatment and to watch for breast cancer recurrence
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CA-125
used to monitor therapy during treatment for ovarian cancer
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AFP
detect and diagnose cancers of the liver, testes, and ovaries
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p-53
gene that codes for a protein that regulates the cell cycle and hence functions as a tumor suppression

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