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Neoplasia III Flashcards

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What are the four places that tumor cells can invade?

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  1. Adjacent tissue
  2. Penetrate body cavity
  3. Lymph nodes
  4. Small venules/capillaries
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What is the protein that attaches cells to each other?

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Cadherins

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What type of collagen forms BM?

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4

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What are laminins?

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A cell surface molecule that attaches to the ECM to degrade it

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What happens to E-cadherin in tumor cells? What is the consequence of this

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Downregulated or not expressed–leads to ability of tumor cell to metastasize

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How do tumor cells get through a BM?

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induce inflammatory cells to release collagenases (MMPs) to degrade collagen IV

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What allows tumor cells to migrate through the BM?

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Binding of fibronectin to its receptor

Other motility factors secreted

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What is a metastasis?

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Tumor implantation that is discontinuous with primary tumor

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What are the four steps of tumor metastatic cascade?

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  1. Invasion of BM
  2. Movement through ECM
  3. Vascular dissemination
  4. Homing
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10
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What do NK cells do in vascular dissemination?

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Kills tumors

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What is CD44?

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Expression of CD44 on tumor cells seems to favor metastasis

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What protects tumor cells in the circulation?

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Clumped up or covered by platelets

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How do tumor cells migrate to the blood via lymphatic ducts?

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Through the thoracic duct

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14
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What are the three routes of metastases?

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  1. Seeding of body cavities
  2. Lymph spread
  3. Hematogenous
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What is the most common type of spread for tumors?

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Lymphatic spread

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Which type of tumor uses lymphatic spread: carcinomas or sarcomas?

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Carcinomas

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What is the pattern of lymphatic spread of tumors?

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Up the lymphatic chain (e.g. breast CA migrates to axillary node)

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18
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Hard or soft for tumors?

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Usually hard

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TTP or not for tumors?

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Usually no TTP

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How does metastatic adenocarcinoma appear in lymph nodes microscopically?

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Looks like glands, as opposed to normal lymph nodes

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What are the three carcinomas that do not spread via the lymph nodes?

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  1. Follicular carcinoma
  2. Renal cell carcinoma
  3. Hepatocellular carcinoma
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Hematogenous spread is characteristic of what type of tumors?

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Sarcomas

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What is the one sarcoma that does not spread via the hematogenous route? How does it spread?

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Rhabdomyosarcoma–spread via local invasion of the submucosal layer

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What are the four sites that are frequently involved in hematogenous spread?

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Liver
Lungs
Brain
Bone

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25
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Multiple tumors are characteristic of local tumor or metastatic tumors?

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Metastatic

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26
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What is umbilication?

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Term to characterize the central area of necrosis in tumors

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27
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What are sentinal lymph nodes?

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1st node in a regional lymphatic system that receives lymph flow from primary tumor

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How are sentinel lymph node tumor detected?

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Radio labels tracers

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29
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What is the most common site for bony metastases? Why?

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Vertebral column, d/t direct connection with the vena cava

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30
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What is the primary symptom with bone metastases?

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Pain

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31
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What are the two types of bone metastases?

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Osteoblastic

Osteolytic

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32
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How do osteoblastic metastases appear on x-ray?

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Radio-dense loci

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33
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What is the elevated lab seen in osteoblastic metastases?

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Increased Serum alk phos

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34
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How do osteolytic metastases appear on x-ray?

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Pathological fractures

Lucency of bones

35
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What are the factors that are produced in osteolytic tumors?

36
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What is the complication with osteolytic metastases?

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Hypercalcemia

37
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What is the common site of metastases for: stomach adenocarcinoma

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Left Supraclavicular node

38
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What is the common site of metastases for: breast CA

39
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What is the common site of metastases for: colorectal CA

40
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What is the common site of metastases for: renal adenocarcinoma

41
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What is the common site of metastases for: lung

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Adrenal/liver

42
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What is the common site of metastases for: melanoma

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liver

Lung

43
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What is the common site of metastases for: the prostate

44
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What is the common site of metastases for: testicular tumors

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Para-aortic nodes

45
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Which is more important, the grade or stage of a tumor?

46
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What is grading of a tumor?

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Looking histologically at a tumor by a pathologist

47
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Higher grade tumor = ? prognosis

48
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How many grades are there for a tumor

49
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Well differentiated tumors with a loss of polarity = what grade?

50
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Moderately differentiated tumor = what polarity?

51
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Poorly differentiated tumor = what grade?

52
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Nearly anaplastic tumor = what grade?

53
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What are the three most common CA causes of death?

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Lung CA
Prostate/breast
Colorectal

54
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What are the three highest incidence causes of CA?

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Breast/Prostate
Lung
Colorectal

55
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Where, geographically, is gastric CA high?

56
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What are the three CAs associated with arsenic?

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Lung
Skin
Hemangiosarcoma

57
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What are the three CAs associated with asbestos?

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Lung
Mesothelioma
GIT

58
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What are the two CAs associated with Nickel?

59
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What is the CA associated with Radon?

60
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What is the CA associated with vinyl chloride?

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Angiosarcoma of liver

61
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Aniline dyes are associated with what CA?

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Bladder CA

62
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Asbestos is associated with what CA?

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Mesothelioma

63
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Cigarette smoking is associated with what CA?

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Oropharynx and lung

64
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What type of CAs particularly increase with age?

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Carcinomas

65
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What are the four types of CA found in young adults?

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  1. Leukemia
  2. Lymphoma
  3. CNS/soft tissue CA
66
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What are the three CAs found commonly in infancy?

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Blastomas
Leukemia
Rhabdomyosarcoma

67
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What are the four steps of tumor metastases?

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  1. Detachment of tumor cells from each other
  2. Attachment to matrix component
  3. Degrade ECM
  4. Migration of tumor cell
68
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What is the receptor that tumor cells use to attach to the BM?

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Laminin receptor

69
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Where do the enzymes that tumor utilize to pierce the ECM come from?

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Fibroblasts and inflammatory cells induced by the tumor cell

70
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What is the primary collagenase that tumor cells cause to release?

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Type IV collagenase

71
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What is the function of fibronectin in tumor cells?

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Prevent the ECM from coming back

72
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Where do the motility factors that tumor cells needs to migrate through a tissue come from?

73
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Intravasation = enter blood or leave blood? Extravasation?

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Enter blood

Extravasation is leave blood

74
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What are the two features of the conventional grading method performed by pathologists?

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Degree of differentiation

Mitotic index

75
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What molecule is used to grade tumors, and is uptaken by tumor cells?

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BrdU (Bromodexy-uridine)

76
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In what part of the cell cycle does BrudU uptake occur by tumor cells? Why?

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S phase–is a Thymidine analogue

77
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What is the TNM system of staging?

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T = size of primary tumor
N = nodal involvement
M = distant metastases
78
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What is the staging system used for colorectal CA?

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Duke system

79
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What is the staging system used for Hodgkin’s and Non-hodgkin’s lymphoma?

80
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Where is skin CA found geographically?

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New Zealand

81
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What is the CA associated with beryllium?

82
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What is the CA associated with benezes?

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Leukemia and Hodgkin’s lymphoma

83
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What is the CA associated with chromium?

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