Lung Cancer Tutorial

Question 1

What is an adenocarcinoma of the lung and what does it ‘look like’, genes affected?

Same with squamous cell carcinoma?

Same with small cell carcinoma?

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Question 3

What type of cancer is this and why?

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Question 4

What type of cancer is this and why?

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Question 5

What is dysplasia?

Dysplasia is considered to be a ____________ change

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Question 6

Explain the different changes in a squamous cell carcinoma (think metaplasia).

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Question 7

What type of cancer would this be?

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Question 8

What type of cancer is this? WHy?

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Question 9

A feature of small cell carcinoma is ________ moulding which is…..

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Question 10

How does someone with lung cancer present?

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Question 11

What are the two different treatment categories of lung cancer and why?

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Question 12

What is a parenoplastic syndrome?

What are some of the causes for them?

Give examples.

Answer 12

Signs and symptoms which cannot be explained by the cancer and its metastasis, they occur in 10% of patients.

They can be caused by the tumour secreting hormones or other substances which is causing an immune response to ensue.

Question 13

Give some examples of parenoplastic syndromes for which lung cancer and with what hormones?

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