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Lecture 17 - Neoplasia 5 Flashcards

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What are the most common cancers world wide?

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Female breast
Prostrate cancer
Lung
Bowel

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What are the 4 most common cancers world wide?

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Female breast
Prostrate cancer
Lung
Bowel

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What are the most common causes of cancer in Males?

What are the most common causes of cancer in Females?

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Males = Prostate
Females = Breast

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Why are most cancers diagnosed at age over 65yrs?

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There’s more time for initiation, promotion and progression to take place

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What are some common cancers in children?

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Leukaemia
CNS tumour
Lymphomas

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What is a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug for prostate cancer?

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Cisplatin

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Why have the incidences of malignant melanoma decreased?

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Inc public awareness
Better suncream usage

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What can be biopsied to see if a malignant melanoma has spread?

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Sentinel lymph nodes

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Why are brain cancers difficult to treat?

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Hard for chemotherapy agents to cross blood brain barrier

Radiotherapy damages surrounding healthy brain

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What determines whether an individual will have a favourable outcome with cancer?

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Co-morbidities
Age
Tumour site
Tumour type
Tumour stage
Well differentiated

Availability of treatment

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What is the definition of cancer specific survival?

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% of patients with a specific type and stage of cancer who have not died from their cancer during a certain period of time after diagnosis

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What is the definition of relative survival?

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% of cancer patients who have survived for a certain period of time after diagnosis compared to people who do not have cancer

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What is the definition of disease free survival?

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% of patients who have no signs of cancer during a certain period of time after treatment

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What is the definition of Cure?

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There are no traces of cancer after treatment and the cancer will NEVER come back

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What is the definition of Resmission?

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Signs and symptoms of your cancer have reduced

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What are the 2 types of remission?

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Partial remission
Complete remission

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What is partial remission?

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Signs + symptoms of the cancer have reduced

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What is complete remission?

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Signs + symptoms have disappeared

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Why is it risky to say that a patient is cured from cancer?

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May still be some cancer cells in the body and these can come back one day to causes cancer
(Melanoma does this a lot)

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How are tumours/cancers classified?

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TNM staging system (can only be used for solid tumours

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What does the TNM staging system mean?

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T = size of primary Tumour
N = extent of regional lymph Node involvement
M = Metastatic spread via the blood

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What are the tumour sizes?

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T1 (smallest)
T2
T3
T4 (largest)

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What are the (N) regional lymph node involvement classifications?

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N0
N1
N2
N3

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What does N0 mean?

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No evidence of lymph node metastasis

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What does N1, N2 and N3 mean?

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N1 = evidence of a single group of lymph nodes with metastasis
N2 = more lymph nodes affected
N3 = many lymph nodes affected

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What does M0 mean in terms of metastatic spread?

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Don’t have metastasis

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What does M1 mean in terms of metastatic spread?

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Do have Metastatic spread

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What is meant by tumour stage?

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A measure of the overall burden of the malignant neoplasm

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What does a Stage 1 tumour/cancer mean?

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Early local disease

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What does a Stage 2 tumour/cancer mean?

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Advanced LOCAL disease

So N0 and M0 (Large size like T3 or T4)

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What does a Stage 3 tumour/cancer mean?

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Regional metastasis
(Does not spread through blood so is M0)

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What does a Stage 4 tumour/cancer mean?

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Advanced disease with distant metastasis (M1)
METASTATIC

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What is the Ann Arbor Staging system used to classify?

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Lymphomas

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What are the 4 stages of the Ann Arbor Staging system?

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I - Lymphoma affects only 1 set of lymph nodes
II - more than 1 lymph nodes affected
III - lymph nodes that are affected are on different sides of the diaphragm
IV - non lymph nodes are also affected

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What is the Dukes Staging System used to classify?

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Bowel cancers

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What are the 4 classes of the Duke Staging System for bowel cancer?

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A - Cancer only penetrated inner lining of bowel

B - Cancer penetrates through inner lining penetrating muscle wall

C - Cancer all way through muscle wall affect lymph nodes

D - Cancer metastasises

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What is tumour grading?

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When the degree of differentiation of the neoplasm is described

37
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What does G1, G2, G3 and G4 mean?

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G1 = well-differentiated
G2 = moderately differentiated
G3 = poorly differentiated
G4 = undifferentiated or anaplastic

38
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How does a Grade 1 breast tumour compare to a Grade 3 tumour in a microscopic view?

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G1:
-low mitotic count
-low pleomorphism
-low nuclear to cytoplasm ratio

G3:
-high mitotic count
-high pleomorphism
-High nuclear to cytoplasm ratio

39
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When a patient has a prostate cancer to you treat them straight away?

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Depends how serious it is
Normally you would monitor their PSA levels

40
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What are some examples of different types of treatments for cancer?

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Surgery
Radiotherapy
Chemotherapy
Hormone therapy
Immunotherapy

41
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What are treatments that can be given before or after surgery?

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Adjuvant
Neoadjuvant

42
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What is an adjuvant (surgery)?

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Treatment is given AFTER a surgical removal of a primary tumour to eliminate sub clinical disease (any excess cancer cells floating at distant site)

43
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What is a Neoadjuvant?

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Treatment that is given PRIOR/BEFORE surgical excision to reduce the size of the primary tumour (hopefully making surgery easier)

44
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What is radiation therapy?

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Where high dosage ionising radiation (like x-rays, gamma rays, alpha particles) are used to kill proliferating cells

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How does Radiation therapy kill proliferating cells?

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Triggering apoptosis or interfering with mitosis

DIrect DNA or free radicals induced damage which is detected by cell cycle triggering apoptosis

Double stranded DNA breaks

46
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What sort of doses are given for Radiation therapy?

Why is this done?

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Fractioned doses
Minimise damage to normal cells

47
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What are the 2 types of radiation therapy?

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External beam radiotherapy
Internal radiation therapy

48
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What is external beam radiotherapy?

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External machine aims radiation at the cancer

49
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What are the 2 types of internal radiation therapy?

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Brachytherapy - seeds of radiation particles, ribbons or capsules are place in or near the tumour

Systemic - radioactive iodine (I-131

50
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What must people undergoing systemic internal radiation therapy no do?

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Go near children or pregnant women

51
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What is therapy induced cancer?

What helps reduce this when radiation therapy is being given to treat cancer?

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When cancer s acquired as a result of exposure to radiation from treatment

Fractioned doses (multiple smaller doses of radiation)

52
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What is Chemotherapy?

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Systemic treatment kills cancer cells that have spread to other parts of the body

53
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How do alkylating and Platinum based drugs work?

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Cross link the 2 strands of the DNA helix

54
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What are some examples of Alkylating and Platinum based chemothrapeutic drugs?

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Cisplatin
Cyclophosphamide

55
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How do Antimetabolite chemotherapeutic drugs work?

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Mimics normal substrates involved in DNA replication

56
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How does Vincristine act as a chemotherapeutic drug?

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Blocks microtubules assemble and interferes with mitotic spindle formation

57
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Why does chemotherapy have a negative side effects on the body?

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Targets rapidly proliferating cells

58
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What are some negative side effects of chemotherapy on the body?

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Hair loss
Mouth sores
Weakened immune system
Bruising
Bleeding
Nausea, vomiting
Constipation, diarrhoea
Ulcers of GI tract

59
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Why is the bodies immune system weakend as a result of chemotherapy?

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Stops blood cells proliferating

Low WBC = Low immunity
Low RBC = Anaemia
Low Platelets = Bruising + bleeding

60
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What is bio marker testing?

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Precision medicine where specific genes, proteins and other bio makers are looked for

61
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What type of breast cancers can be treated with Selective Oestrogen Receptor Modulators? (Hormone Therapy)

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ER +ve (Oestrogen Receptor positive)

62
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What is an example of a Hormone (Selective Oestrogen Receptor modulator)?

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Tamoxifen

63
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How does Tamoxifen act as a Hormone Therapy to ER +ve Breast cancer?

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It is a Selective Oestrogen Receptor Modulator

Binds to oestrogen receptors preventing oestrogen binding to oestrogen receptors

64
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What 2 drugs can be used to target oncogenes so will target cancer cells?

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Trastuzumab(Herceptin)
Imatinib(Gleevec)

65
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What is Herceptin/Trastuzumab used to treat?

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HER2 +ve breast cancers

66
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What is imatinib used to treat?

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Lymphoma (Targets their oncogenes)

67
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What does HER2 stand for?

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Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2

68
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How can HER2 +ve breast cancers be identified?

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Monoclonal antibodies

69
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What is used to treat HER2 +ve breast cancer?

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Trastuzumab/Herceptin

70
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What is immunotherapy?

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When the immune system is targeted to help it by recognising and attacking

71
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Are tumour infiltrating lymphocytes a good sign?

What do they indicate?

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Good sign

TILs indicate that the immune system is responding to the tumour

72
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What are some examples of immuotherapeutic drugs that can attack and shrink tumours?

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Ipilimumab
Nivolumab

73
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How do immune checkpoint inhibitors work in immunotherapy?

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Block immune checkpoints allowing immune cells to respond more strongly

74
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How do monoclonal antibodies be used in immunotherapy?

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Proteins bind to specific targets making cancer cells stand out

75
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What is an example of a vaccine used to help treat a cancer?

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Oncolytic virus therapy

76
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How does oncolytic virus therapy work?

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Herpes simplex virus type 1 given
Virus infects cancer cells and healthy cells
Healthy cells can destroy virus
Cancer cant
Cancer cells destroyed by virus

77
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What are tumour markers?

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Substances released by cancer cells into circulation

Can be measured assessing response to therapy, recurrence, diagnosis

78
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What is a tumour marker used to detect a Testicular Tumour and Choriocarinoma?

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HCG (human Chorionic Gonadotrophin)

79
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What is a tumour marker used to detect a hepatocellular carcinoma and germ cell tumours?

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Alpha fetoprotein

80
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What is a tumour marker used to detect a prostate carcinoma?

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Prostate specific antigen (PSA)

81
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What is a tumour marker used to detect Ovarian cancer?

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CA125

82
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What is a tumour marker used to detect pancreatic, gallbladder, bile duct and gastric cancers?

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CA19.9

83
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What is a tumour marker used to detect colorectal cancer?

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CEA

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What is a tumour marker used to detect neuroendocrine tumours?

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Chromgranin A

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