Epithelial Disease

Question 1

What is a pathologist

Answer 1

Physicians study of disease processes

Question 2

What are the most common cancers in women

Answer 2

Breast cancer
Lung cancer
Colorectal cancer

Question 3

What are the most common cancers in men

Answer 3

Lung cancer
Prostate cancer
Colorectal Ccner
Liver cancer

Question 4

What is dysplasia

Answer 4

Presence of an abnormal type of tissue which causes the change of the shape of tissue which can be removed.

Question 5

What is metaplasia

Answer 5

Tissue adapts to envirpement stimuli by change in cell differentiation. They diffrenicate into a new mature stable type of cell that is better equipped to withstand particular envirouemtla stress

Question 6

What is neoplasia

Answer 6

Permenant alteration of cellular growth which can form a lump leading to 2 types of tumours

Question 7

Diffrenciate the differences between benign and malignant tumours

Answer 7

Maliganant
Cell growth is abnormal and destroy other tissues.
Can become detached and move to another part of the body forming a secondary tumour.

Benign
Diffrenciation closely resembles cells of origin.

Question 8

How does smoking effect dysplasia

Answer 8

Trachea lined with cilia which is used to move foreign material. Smoking paralyses the cilia causing a change in the shape of cells.

REVERSIBLE

Question 9

What are the effects of smoking in metaplsai

Answer 9

Epithelial cells lose Cilla all together causes a change in the character of tissue no longer ciliated more columnar now.
REVERSIBLE

Question 10

What are the effects of smoking in anaplasia

Answer 10

Tissue organisation breaks down and forms a tumour

Question 11

What is atherocscleoi

Answer 11

Blcoakge of an artery due to fatty deposits.