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Neoplasia Lecture Flashcards

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Neoplasms

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New growths

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Benign tumors

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Does not invade or metastasize (ex: Lipoma) most of these tumors end in -Oma

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Malignancies

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Invade metastasize

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Harmartomas

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Overgrowths. Build up of epithelial tissue and collagen in lung

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Tissue of origin: Epithelium

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Carcinoma

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Tissue of Origin: Messenchymal Tissue

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Sarcom

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Tissue of Origin: Blood

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Leukemia

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Tissue of Origin: Lymphoid Tissue

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Lymphoma

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What is the Stroma?

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It is the connective tissue for cancer and is not malignant

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What is the origin of blastoma?

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Blast cells

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What is mesenchyme tissue?

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Derivative of the mesoderm that produces connective tissue, fat, musculoskeletal tissue and blood/fat tissue. Sarcomas and leukemias/lymphomas are mesenchymal tumors.

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What is the origin of glioma?

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Glial cells

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What is the origin of lymphoma?

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Lymphoid cells

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What is the origin of melanoma?

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Melanocytes

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What is the origin of mesothelioma?

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Mesothelioma (lining of abdominal, pleural, and pericardial cavities)

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What is the origin of seminoma?

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Germ Cells (testicular)

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What is the origin of teratoma (sometimes benign)?

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germ cells (multiple germ layers: ectoderm, endoderm, mesoderm)

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What is the origin of choristoma?

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(tissue that is out of place (heterotopic); e.g., pancreas in stomach)

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Surgical pathology

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Diagnosis of disease by gross examination, histomorphology, immunohistochemistry, and other methods

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Cytopathology

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Diagnosis of disease by microscopic analysis of cells and cellular aggregates

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Autopsy pathology

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Diagnosis of disease in deceased patients by gross examination,
histomorphology, immunohistochemistry, and other
methods

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Define Gross pathology

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Findings from unmagnified (naked eye) examination of specimens (colon: tan, 2 cm polyp)

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Define histopathology

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Findings from the microscopic examination of stained tissues (esophagus, distal, biopsy: adenocarcinoma)

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Cytopathology

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Findings from the microscopic examination of
individual cells or groups of cells (e.g., Pap smear showing
cervical carcinoma)

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Molecular pathology

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findings from the examination of the DNA
and/or RNA of specimens (e.g., ductal carcinoma of breast
showing HER2 amplification)

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Key microscopic features of malignancy

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Nuclear irregularities (atypical):
- Irregular contours (jagged, notched)
- Increased size (nucleus to cytoplasm ratio)
- Large and or multiple nucleoli
- “open” chromatin or hyper chromatic (dark from too much chromatin)
Overall patter:
-Invasion into surrounding tissues
-irregular 3-D structures

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What does Grade mean?

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Degree of differentiation of the tumor
- Low grade: well - differentaiated (looks like tissue of origin)
- High grade: poorly differentiated (looks less like tissue of origin) to undifferentiated (anaplastic)

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What does Stage mean?

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Anatomical extent of the tumor
- designation: “T__ N__ M__” where T = tumor size/extent,
N = nodal status, and M = metastasis

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Tissue name based on origin: fat

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Benign: lipoma
Malignant: liposarcoma

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Tissue name based on origin: smooth muscle

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Benign: leiomyoma
Malignant: leiomyosarcoma

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Tissue name based on origin: glandular epithelium

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Benign: adenoma
Malignant: adenocarcinoma

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Three main ways cancer can metastasize

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Hematogenous
Lymphatic
transcoelomic
(pericardial, peritoneal,
and pleural cavities)

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Sporadic cancers

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Are somatic cells that have mutations due to exposure to chemicals/radiation

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Familial Cancer

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Are from germ line cells that are exposed to chemicals/radiation

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Define Exome

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The entire coding sequence of the genome

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What is transcoelomic metastasis?

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When cancer travels through peritoneal fluid

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Which mutation is a tumor suppressor

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TP53

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What is clonal evolution?

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Accumulating mutations turn normal cells to cancerous cells

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What is driver mutation?

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Leads to malignancy

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What is passenger mutations?

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No effect on carcinogenesis

41
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Too much BCL2 does what?

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allows tumor cells to avoid apoptosis. Ex follicular lymphoma

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Hallmark I

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cancer cells avoid apoptosis

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Hallmark 2

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cancer cells use growth signaling pathways

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Hallmark 3

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cancer cells escape control of growth

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What is the RB protein?

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prevents cancer cells from going through G1 to S phase

46
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What is retinoblastoma?

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A rare intraocular tumor caused mutation of RB

47
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Two hit model shows what?

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That cancer cells needs to knock out both copies of a tumor suppressor gene to get a malignancy

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Hallmark 4

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Tumors grow their own blood supply

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What is the angiogenic switch?

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A therapeutic target

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Hallmark 5

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Cancer cells divide without end

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What is the action of p53?

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Shuts down the cell division when telomeres are too short to protect itself from becoming a cancer cell

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What happens when there is little to no telomerase activity?

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Shortening telomeres -> senescence

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What happens when there is high telomerase activity?

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Shortening telomeres - > telomeres restored - > immortalization

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Hallmark 6

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Cancer cells invade and spread

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Action of E-cadherin loss and matrix metalloproteinases

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Allows invasion

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Define heterotypic signaling

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communication between tumor cells and normal cells

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Warburg effect

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Cancer cells (even when there’s O2 present) only use glycolysis

58
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Why do cancer cells use warburg effect?

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it helps make the macromolecules that they need to grow

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What happens with TGF Beta?

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The cancer cells turn it off so they cannot be detected by immune cells

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Loss of APC can lead to?

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Familial adenomatous polyposis FAP, very high risk. Tx prophylactic colectomy

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KRAS mutations

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Most frequent; predict decreased responsiveness to monoclonal AB therapy against epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)

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Melanoma Characteristics

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Irregular border, multiple colors, nodularity. About half of melanomas have BRAF mutations.

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Action of kinase inhibitors

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Inhibit BRAF

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What virus causes primary effusion lymphoma and Kaposi Sarcoma?

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Human herpes virus 8 (HHV-8)

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What virus causes Burkitt lymphoma?

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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)

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What virus causes Cervical Carcinoma?

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HPV

67
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What virus causes hepatocellular carcinoma?

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Hepatitis B virus, Hep C virus

68
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How does HPV cause cervical cancer?

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Protein E6 binds to p53 and protein EL7 binds to RB which causes proliferation

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