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Onc Flashcards

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DCIS tx?

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Breast conserving therapy, wide excision (lumpectomy) followed by Breast radiation

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Estrogen positive DCIS tx?

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Breast conserving therapy, wide excision (lumpectomy) followed by Breast radiation + tamoxifen

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Breast tumors involving the skin, Chest wall, or more than one quad of the breast, inflammatory breast cancer, Contraindications to radiation tx?

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Mastectomy

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Sentinel lymph node biopsy positive, axillary lymph nodes clinically involved with breast cancer tx?

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Axillary lymph node dissection

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Tumor greater than 5 cm, positive surgical margins, Skin or chest wall involvement, Inflammatory breast cancer, greater than four positive axillary nodes. Tx?

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Chest wall radiation therapy after mastectomy

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Aromatase inhibitors (anastrazole, letrozole, exemestane) side fx?

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Arthralgia, bone pain, Hld, Osteoporosis

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Tamoxifen side fx?

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Endometrial cancer, VTE disease

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Anthracyclines (doxorubicin, epirubicin) side fx?

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Cardiomyopathy, acute leukemia

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Trastuzumab side fx?

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Cardiomyopathy, Especially If used with an anthracycline

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Bisphosphonates side fx?

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Osteonecrosis of the jaw

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Denosumab side fx?

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Hypocalcemia and Osteonecrosis of the Jaw

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Post renal transplant lymphoma is most often associated with which organism?

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Epstein Barr Virus (EBV)

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Peripheral blood showing smudge cells is most specifically associated with what condition?

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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

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Breast cancer along with sarcomas,leukemia, lymphoma, brain tumors and adrenal cancer defines which syndrome?

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Li-Fraumeni Syndrome

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Sweet’s Syndrome (fever and painful rash on the arms, legs, trunk, face, or neck. It’s also known as acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) can be associated with what type of malignancy?

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AML, Can occur with the use of NSAIDs, G, CSF medications, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, or pregnancy.

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Trastuzumab is used for what positive marker in patients with breast cancer?

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HER2/neu positive

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Treatment of MALT requires eradication of what organism?

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Heliobacter Pylori (H. pylori)

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What are the CD markers for a Reed Sternberg cell in Hodgkin’s lymphoma?

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CD15 and CD30

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Rapid fire assoc: Lytic (“punched out”) bone lesions on x-ray

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Multiple myeloma

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Rapid fire assoc: Mucin-filled cell with peripheral nucleus “Signet ring”

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gastric carcinoma

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Rapid fire txt: Breast cancer in postmenopausal women

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Aromatase inhibitors (anastrozole)

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Rapid fire txt: Chronic myelogenous leukemia

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Imatinib

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Rapid fire txt: Acute promyelocytic leukemia (M3)

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All-trans retinoic acid

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t(8;14)- translocation of c-myc and heavy-chain Ig

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Burkitt lymphoma

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t(14;18)- translocation of BCL-2 and heavy-chain Ig

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Follicular lymphoma

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t(15;17)- translocation of retinoic acid receptor (RARA gene)

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AML (M3)- Acute promyelocytic leukemia. Treat with all-trans retinoic acid

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t(11;14)- translocation of cyclin D1

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Mantle cell lymphoma. Txt w/RCHOP

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Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and gastric malignancies (eg, adenocarcinoma, MALToma)?

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Breast cancer (most common/important association)?

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Invasive ductal carcinoma

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Breast tumor (benign, young woman)?

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Fibroadenoma

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Philadelphia chromosome t(9;22) (BCR-ABL) associated with what cancer?

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CML (may sometimes be associated with ALL/AML)

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Rapid fire assoc:”Soap bubble” in femur or tibia on x-ray

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Giant cell tumor of the bone (generally benign)

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Rapid fire assoc:Raised periosteum (creating a “Codman triangle”)

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Aggressive bone lesion (eg, osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, osteomyelitis)

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Rapid fire assoc:”Onion skin” periosteal reaction

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Ewing sarcoma (malignant small blue cell tumor)

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Rapid fire assoc:Psammoma bodies (4)

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Meningiomas, papillary thyroid carcinoma, mesothelioma, papillary serous carcinoma of the endometrium and ovary

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Rapid fire assoc:Pseudopalisading tumor cells on brain biopsy

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Glioblastoma multiforme

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What is the treatment of M3form of AML?

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All-Trans Retinoic Acid(ATRA)

38
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What is the syndrome that contains the triad of ptosis, miosis, and anhidrosis?

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Horner’s Syndrome (assoc w/pancoast tumor From squamous cell carcinoma)

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What is the most common subtype of thyroid cancer?

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Papillary thyroid cancer(papillary carcinoma)

40
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What group of testicular cancer is not sensitive to radiation therapy?

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Non-seminomas (eg. teratoma, embryonal carcinoma, choriocarcinoma, yolk sac tumor)

41
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Which type of anemia is a common complication of chronic lymphocytic leukemia?

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Warm agglutinin autoimmune hemolytic anemia

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CLL Txt?

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Ibrutinib (Bruton kinase inhibitor), alkylating agents (chlorambucil, cyclophosphamide, bendamustine), purine nucleoside analogs (fludarabine, cladribine, pentostatin), Monoclonal antibodies (Rituximab)

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Which type of cancer is least likely to metastasize to the brain and usually produces blastic bone lesions?

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Prostate cancer

44
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Which type of lung cancer can give a paraneoplastic syndrome of gynecomastia?

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Large cell carcinoma

45
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Dark purple skin/mouth nodules in a patient with AIDS

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Kaposi sarcoma, associated with HHV-8

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Rapid fire assoc: Bronchogenic apical lung tumor on imaging

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Pancoast tumor (can compress cervical sympathetic chain and cause Horner syndrome)

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Rapid fire assoc: Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils

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Homer-Wright rosettes (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma)

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Which marker is often associated with ovarian cancer?

49
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Which marker is often associated with pancreatic cancer?

50
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Rapid fire assoc: Giant B lymphocytes with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions (“owl’s eye”)

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Reed-Sternberg cells (Hodgkin lymphoma)

51
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Rapid fire assoc: Glomerulus -like structure surrounding vessel in germ cells

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Schiller-Duval bodies (yolk sac tumor)

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Rapid fire assoc: Disarrayed granulosa cells arranged around collections or eosinophilic fluid

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Call-Exner bodies (granulosa cell tumor of the ovary)

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Rapid fire assoc: Dysplastic squamous cervical cells with “raisinoid” nuclei and hyperchromasia

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Koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer)

54
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To which class of medications do tamoxifen and raloxifene belong?

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SERMs, Selective estrogen receptor modulators.

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CSF analysis in CNS lymphoma shows what cell population?

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Monoclonal B cell population.

56
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What rash is associated with glucagonoma?

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Necrolytic migratory Erythema (NME)

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The diagnosis of Glucagonoma is suggested with Glucagon levels above what?

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> 1000 pg/mL

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What chemotherapeutic agent Is used with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma?

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Sorafenib or regorafenib

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What are the three possible interventions for localized hepatocellular carcinoma?

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Surgical resection, liver transplantation, radiation.

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What is the Chemotherapeutic regimen for colon cancer?

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FOLFOX, 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, folinic acid, Oxaliplatin.

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