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Chemotherapy Essentials: Flashcards

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What is chemotherapy

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Medicine for cancer used to kill cancer cells, also kills normal cells

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What does chemotherapy so

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slows or stops the growth of repidly dividing cancer cellse

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What does it mean to cure cancer

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Cancer goes away and does not come back

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What does is mean to control cancer

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Cure isn’t possible and you manage the disease like a chronic illness

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What does palliation care of cancer mean

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Cure and control may not be possible so you control symptoms and improve comfort, not getting treatment

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What factors effect the decision of geting chemotherapy treatment

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Type, subtype, stage, results of test, age, health, meds, other illnesses, past treatment

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Why is it important to know the type and subtype of cancer

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Some are not responsive to treatment

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Why is it important to know the pts health

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Treatment is selective

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Why is it important to know if the pt has other health problems

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YOU dont want those to get worse

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What is the goal of control cancer

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Keep it from getting out of control

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What are the asepcts of a cancer treatment plan

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Chemo/immuno/radition threapy, surgery

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What does immunotherapy do

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Helps the immune system

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What cancers usally get surgery

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Breasy and colon

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What does radiation therapy do

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Directly to the tissue

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What is a chemotherapy schedule

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A cycle with time on and off to give time to cells to recover, based on clinical trials and guidleies

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What is precision medicine

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Customized indicidulized and personalixed cancer care

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How to do you create recision medicine

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testing

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What therapy is taking the center stage of precision medicine

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immunotherapy

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What do drugs do

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Skrink tumors while sparing healthy cells

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What are the outcomes of precision medicine

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Better

21
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What is intravesicular

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Bladder

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What is intrathecal

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Spinal fluid

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What is intrapleural

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Chest tube

24
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What is the shift to oral meds about

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More new drugs, expensive, bad insurance coverage, adherence issues, monitoring and management of side effects

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Most people with cancer are older and

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Oncology is the most expensive feild

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What systems are most susceptible to chemotherapy

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Mouth, bone marrow, hair, reproductive organs

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What are the most common chemo side effects

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N, fatigue, hair loss, neuropathy, D, C, low blood count, chemobrain

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What are the types of N/V

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anticipatory, acute, delayed, breakthrough, refactory

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What is breakthrouch V/N

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When you give meds and it doesn’t work

30
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Have antiemetic drugs help

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Yes

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What is cancer-related fatigue (CRF)

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physcial, emotional, and mental feeling of tiredeness, doesn’t get better with rest and sleep

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What is the best intervention fo CRF

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exercise

33
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Is hair loss tempoary

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yes

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When does hair loss occur

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14 days after first dose

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What are the interventions for hair loss

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Scalp cooling, wigs, emotional support

36
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What is neuropathy

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Numbness, tingling, increases with more treatment, interfers with life

37
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Why does diarrhea happen

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Cells that line the GI tract slough

38
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Why does constipation happen

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bowel innervation affected

39
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What is the plan for D, C

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baseline, increase fluids, meds, communication, effects QOF

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What is nadir

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When blood counts are low after treatment and you are sespital to infection

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What are the issues that happen with low blood counts

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Infection, anemia, plateltes

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What is chemobrain

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thinking, memory, and concentraion issue

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What are the interventions for chemobrain

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stay organized, get rest, mindfulness, talk about it

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What is palliative care

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symptom managemtn with cuative treatment to improve QOL

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What are the differences of palliative services and hospice services

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6 months or less, curative treatment

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What are some palliative care measures

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Equipment, meds, home services, pain control, counseling, end of life planning (even if things are going good)

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