Neoplasia 3-6 Flashcards
Characteristics of Malignant neoplasms`
The major characteristics that are:
____________
____________
___________
________
Lack or loss of differentiation (anaplasia) High rate of growth
Invasiveness
Metastasis
Characteristics of Malignant neoplasms: Differentiation/Anaplasia
Undifferentiated tumours exhibit features of ______ i.e lack of differentiation
anaplasia
Differentiation is defined as the extent to which ______________________
parenchyma cells of tumours resemble comparable normal cells
_______ is the hall mark of malignant transformation histologically
Anaplasia
Level of differentiation is used to grade tumours histologically into __________
well, moderate or poorly differentiated
Tumours that resemble cell of origin are _____ differentiated and vice versa
well
Functional differentiation
The ability of tumours to _______________
retain the function of the cell of origin refers to functional differentiation
___ differentiated tumours retain their functions while _____ tumours do not often retain any function
Well
anaplastic
Well differentiated Squamous Cell Carcinoma produces _____
Well diff. adenocarcinoma produces _______
Well-differentiated Hepatocellular Carcinoma produces _____
keratin; glands/mucin
bile
Functional Differentiation
Sometimes, unanticipated functions emerge
E.g some produce fetal proteins,
Others produce ectopic hormones leading to _________.
e.g bronchogenic CA producing ACTH,PTH etc
paraneoplastic syndrome
Histologic Characteristics of malignant cells
Pleomorphism-cells of ___________
____chromatism
___eased nucleocytoplasmic ratio
________ chromatin
different sizes & shapes
Hyper
Incr
Coarsely clumped
Histologic Characteristics of malignant cells
( small or Large?) , multiple, prominent nucleoli
__________ mitoses
Presence of tumours ____ cells
Disorderliness or markedly disturbed orientation
Large
Numerous, bizarre
giant
Characteristics of Malignant tumours: High rate of growth
Certain factors are known to determine the growth rate:
_________
_______
___________
Blood supply
Hormone dependence
Level of differentiation
Malignant tumours grow more (slowly or rapidly?) while benign tumours grow more (slowly or rapidly ?)
Rapidly; slowly
Malignant tumours grow to progressively ______ surrounding tissue
invade
Characteristics of tumours: Local invasion
Invasion starts from _____ of the ______ to involve the _____
penetration
basement membrane
stroma
Most benign tumours are encapsulated
T/F
T
Exception; haemangioma
Mention a benign tumor that isn’t encapsulated
Hemangioma
Some malignant tumours may have pseudocapsule
T/F
T
Examples of malignant tumours that may have pseudocapsule
Wilm’s tumours
Characteristics of Malignant tumours: Metastasis
Metastasis refers to _____ of tumor cells _________________
spread
from the primary site to form tumour implants at distant site.
Metastasis is an important hallmark of malignancy
T/F
T
Some malignant tumours do not metastasis
T/F
T
Examples of malignant tumors that don’t metastasize
Examples are:
basal cell Carcinoma of skin,
malignant glial tumours of the brain
Characteristics of Malignant tumours: Metastasis
The major routes of metastasis are:
_______
________
__________
Blood vessel
Lymphatics
Body cavities-
Which organ is metastasis rare in?
Spleen
Metastatic cascade refers to the __________ that tumour cells takes to ________
sequential steps
spread from the primary site to form new growth at distant site
all cells within the tumour bulk spread to distant sites
T/F
F
Not all cells within the tumour bulk can spread to distant sites
Metastatic cascade is broadly divided into three major stages:
_________
___________
_________
Invasion Intravasation Extravasation
Mechanism of metastasis
Stages of emigration from primary tumour to other sites include:
Loss of ability to ______
Increase ability to adhere to the __________
_________ of ECM
________through the ECM
The cells form aggregates (homo-or heterotypic) within vessels & migrate through BM
Form tumour emboli at secondary sites
adhere to each otherget detached
Basement membrane & Extracellular
matrix(ECM)
Degradation
Migration
Grading of Malignant tumours
Grading: Refers to level of ________ of tumour cells to normal similar cell of origin
microscopic resemblance
_____ differentiated tumour closely resembles cell of origin while _____ differentiated tumour do not have any resemblance
Well
poorly
Same grading system is used for different tumours
T/F
F
Different
Level of differentiation correlates with _____ but does not always correlate with ________
aggressiveness
biologic behaviour
Grading is based on ______ assessment of the tumour.
histological
Examples of grading
prostatic cancer is graded using _______ system,
squamous cell carcinoma of cervix using _______________
Gleason’s
extent of keratin formation
Grades 1-IV is used with increasing _____ or decreasing ________
anaplasia
level of differentiation
Grading of tumours
Grade1- ?
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Well differentiated
Moderately differentiated
Poorly differentiated
Nearly anaplastic
Gleasons’s pattern scale
Should I?
Maybe?
If I see it in PQ
Staging of Malignant tumours
Staging is defined as the extent of ________.
tumour spread
Staging of Malignant tumours
It is based on 3 parameters:
____ of primary tumour,
+/- _______,
+/- _________
size
lymph node
distant blood borne metastasis
Staging of Malignant tumours
2 systems are used _____ and ______.
TNM and AJC
TNM staging system
u T- _____
u N- ____,
u M- ______.
tumour size
node
metastasis
AJC grading system
American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system is of clinical importance.
T/F
T
AJC grading system
______________
American Joint Committee
I-IV grading system incorporates all 3 parameters
T/F
T