Diseases associated with neoplasms

Question 1

Down Syndrome is associated with what cancer(s)?

Answer 1

ALL; AML (we ALL fall Down)

Question 2

Xeroderma pigmentosum, albinism

Answer 2

Melanoma, Basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinomas of skin

Question 3

Chronic atrophic gastritis, pernicious anemia, postsurgical gastric remnants

Answer 3

Gastric adenocarcinoma

Question 4

Tuberous sclerosis

Answer 4

Giant cell astrocytoma, renal angiomyolipoma, cardiac rhabdomyoma

Question 5

Actinic keratosis

Answer 5

squamous cell carcinoma of skin

Question 6

Barrett’s esophagus (chronic GI reflux)

Answer 6

Esophageal adenocarcinoma

Question 7

Plummer-Vinson syndrome (decreased iron)

Answer 7

Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus

Question 8

Cirrhosis (alcoholic, hep B or C)

Answer 8

Hepatocellular carcinoma

Question 9

Ulcerative colitis

Answer 9

Colonic adenocarcinoma

Question 10

Paget’s disease of bone

Answer 10

Secondary osteosarcoma and fibrosarcoma

Question 11

Immunodeficiency states

Answer 11

Malignamt lymphomas

Question 12

AIDS

Answer 12

Aggressive malignant lymphomas (non-Hodgkins) and Kaposi’s sarcoma

Question 13

Autoimmune diseases (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, myastenia gravis)

Answer 13

Lymphoma

Question 14

Acanthosis nigricans (hyperpigmentation and epidermal thickening)

Answer 14

Visceral malignancy

Question 15

Dysplastic nevus

Answer 15

Malignant melanoma

Question 16

Radiation exposure

Answer 16

Leukemia, sarcoma, papillary thyroid cancer, breast cancer