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Chp 19 Flashcards

1
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Adjuvant chemotherapy

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Drugs given after primary therapy (surgery/radiation).

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Alkylating agents

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Chemotherapeutic synthetic drugs that cause crosslinks and breaks in DNA to stop cells from dividing

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Anaplasia

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Loss of differentiation of cells; reversion to a more primitive cell type.

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Antimetabolites

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Chemotheraputic agents that block the synthesis of DNA components and prevent cells from dividing.

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5
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Cac/o

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Bad

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Cauter/o

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Burn, heat

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7
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Follicul/o

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Small glandular sacs

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Medull/o

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Soft, inner part

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Mut/a

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Genetic change

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Mutagen/o

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Causing genetic change

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Plas/o

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Formation

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Ple/o

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Many, more

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13
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Prot/o

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First

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14
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Radi/o

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Rays

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15
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Sarc/o

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Flesh, connective tissue

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16
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Scirrh/o

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Hard

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17
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Xer/o

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Dry

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Antimitotics

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Chemotherapeutic chemicals that block the function of a protein necessary for mitosis.

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19
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Apoptosis

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Programmed cell death

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20
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Brachytherapy

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Radiotherapy that uses insertion of sealed containers into body cavities or radioactive seeds directly into the tumor

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Carcinogens

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Agents that cause cancer

22
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Carcinoma

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Cancerous tumor made up of cells of epithelial origin.

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Dedifferentiation

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Loss of differentiation of cells

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Differentiation

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Specialization of cells

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Electron beams

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Low energy beams of radiation for treatment of skin/surface tumors

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Fields

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Dimensions of the area of the body undergoing irradiation

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Fractionation

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Giving radiation in small, repeated doses

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-blastoma

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Immature tumor

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-plasia

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Formation, growth

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-plasm

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Formation, growth

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Ana-

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Backward

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Apo-

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Off, away

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Brachy-

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Short (distance)

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Meta-

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Beyond; change

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Neo-

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New

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Tele-

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Far

37
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Grading of tumors

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Evaluating the degree of maturity of tumor cells/ degree of differentiation

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Gray

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Unit of absorbed radiation dose

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Infiltrative

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Extending beyond normal tissue boundries into adjacent tissues

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Mesenchymal

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Embroyonic connective tissue

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Metastasis

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Spread of a malignant tumor to a secondsry site

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Mitosis

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Replication of cells

43
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Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

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Drugs are given before primary therapy to reduce size of tumor

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Neoplasm

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New growth; benign or malignant tumor

45
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Pedunculated

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Processing a stem or stalk

46
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Photon therapy

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Radiation therapy usung energy in the form of xrays/gamma rays

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Proton therapy

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Subatomic positively charged particles produced by a cyclotron deposit a dosse of radiation at a tightly focused point in the body.

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Sarcoma

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Cancerous tumor derived from connective or flesh tissue

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Serous

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Having the apperance of a thin, watery fluid

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Sessile

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Having no stem

51
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Simulation

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Study using CT scan/MRI to map the area to receive treatment before radiotherpay is given

52
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Staging of tumors

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System of evaluating the extent of spread of tumors

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