Craft study sheet Flashcards

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Atresia

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Absence of an opening…pig pic

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Agenesis

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Absence of organ and primordial tissue

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Aplasia

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Absence because of failure of growth. Still have primordial tissue

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Hypoplasia

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Failure to develop to normal size.

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Hyperplasia

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  1. Response to ext. stimulus
  2. Regression with stim. Remov.
  3. Normal cells
  4. Organized tiss. Struct.
  5. Non-clonal cell expansion
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Neoplasia

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  1. No direct stimulus needed
  2. No regression with stimulus removal
  3. Abnormal cells with genetic modifications
  4. Effaces normal tissue
  5. Clonal cell expansion
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Parenchyma

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Neoplastic cells constituting tumor

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Stroma

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Reactive tissue around parenchyma

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Benign tumor

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  1. Gross and microscopic non-invasive features
  2. Well dileneated
  3. Often have capsule
  4. Expansile growth
  5. Amendable to sx
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Malignant tumor

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  1. Infiltrate growth
  2. Invasive and destructive to surrounding tissues
  3. Metastasis
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Anaplasia

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Lack of differentiation

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Hallmark of malignancy

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Anaplasia

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Schirrous response (desmoplasia)

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Abundant fibrous stroma, carcinomas

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Differentiation

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Extent which neoplastic cells resemble corresponding normal parenchymal cells (morphologically and functionally)

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Pleomorphism

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Variation in size and shape of cells

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Oncogenes

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Promote autonomous cell growth in cancer cells

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Proto-oncogenes

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Normal genes regulate cell growth and differentiation

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Oncoproteins

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Abnormal proteins encoded by oncogene that usually inactivate regulatory processes.

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Most reliable features of malignancy

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  1. Metastasis

2. Local invasion

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Common routes of metastasis

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  1. Direct seeding of body cavities (peritoneal cavity)
  2. Lymphatic spread (carcinomas)
  3. Hematogenous spread (sarcomas)
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4 genetic targets

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  1. Proto-oncogenes
  2. Tumor suppressor genes
  3. Apoptosis regulating genes
  4. DNA repair genes
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Metastatic cascade

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  1. Loosening cell-to-cell contact
  2. Degradation of BM/ECM
  3. Attachment to novel ECM components
  4. Migration
  5. Intravasation
  6. Embolic spread
  7. Adhesion to endothelium
  8. Extravasation
  9. Angiogenesis
  10. Growth
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Cancer mechs of immune evasion

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  1. Growth of antigen negative variants
  2. Reduction of MHC molecule expression
  3. Production of immunosuppressive/immunoreg molecules
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Direct acting chemical carcinogens

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  • Require no metabolic conversion

- acylating agents

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Indirect acting carcinogens
-Require metabolic conversion
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Radiation carcinogenesis
``` UV light (sun) Ionizing radiation (x rays) ```
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Microbial carcinogenesis
- Chronic tissue damage and inflammation | - hepatitis; helicobacter pylori
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Paraneoplastic syndrome def
Symptoms occurring at sites distant to neoplasm or metastasis
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Ex neoplastic syndromes
1. Hypercalcemia 2. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy 3. Endocrinopathy
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Grading of neoplasms
Based on degree of differentiation of tumor cells