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Oncology 🐻 Flashcards

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What will you see on x ray of osteosarcoma?

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Destruction of normal trabecular pattern and irregular margins

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What is tumor lysis syndrome?

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Massive tumor cell lysis causing:

HYPERkalemia

Hyperuricemia

Hyperphosphatemia

Acute renal failure

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How do you diagnose Hodgkin lymphoma?

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Tissue biopsy showing Reed-Sternberg cells

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What marker is often elevated when someone has a hepatic tumor and will decrease when treatment is working?

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Serum α-fetoprotein

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Do retinoblastomas metastasize?

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Not often, but when they do you die within one year

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True or false:

Most liver masses found in childhood are malignant

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True

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Which is more common in ALL: B cell or T cell precursor lineage

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B cell precursor lineage (85%)********

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What’s the big deal if you have too many WBCs?

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Hyperleukocytosis (>75,000) is an emergency because it can cause life threatening complications

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How do you diagnose retinoblastoma?

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A detailed ophthalmologic exam under anesthesia.

If you find a chalky, white retinal mass with soft friable consistency, you’ve diagnosed it

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What are some of the predisposing factors for AML?

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Down syndrome

Neurofibromatosis

Environmental exposures: radiation, benzene, previous chemo

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What is the most common abdominal tumor?

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Neuroblastoma

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Is rhabdomyosarcoma a common cancer?

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No

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Your Hodgkin lymphoma patient starts having dyspnea, cough, orthopnea, and facial and arm edema. What do you suspect?

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Superior vena cava syndrome

That mediastinal mass is smooshing the SVC

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What are the clinical findings of nephroblastoma (Wilms tumor)

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Asymptomatic abdominal mass that is smooth, firm, well demarcated, and RARELY crosses midline**

Fever, hematuria, HTN (kidney tumor duh)

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What causes ALL?

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Uncontrolled proliferation of immature lymphocytes

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Which two leukemias are associated with Down syndrome?

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ALL

AML
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What are the 2 types of brain tumors?

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Glial tumors

Nonglial tumors

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What is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in childhood?

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Rhabdomyosarcoma

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Who does better with NON-Hodgkin lymphoma: children or adults?

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Adults

In children, Non Hodgkin lymphomas are rapidly proliferating, high grade malignancies

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What is the clinical presentation of ALL?

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BONE PAIN- esp in pelvis, vertebrae, legs (may refuse to walk)

Bleeding- petechiae, pallor

Intermittent fever, fatigue

Hepatosplenomegaly

Lymphadenopathy

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What will you see on a peripheral smear AND bone marrow biopsy of ALL?

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Lymphoblasts

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Who is most likely to get Ewing sarcoma?

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White teenage boys

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Is retinoblastoma ever Bilateral?

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Yes 20-30% of the time.

May cause blindness

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What is the usual presenting symptom of hepatic tumors?

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Enlarging abdomen

10% of them are found on routine exam

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Which bones are most often affected by Ewing sarcoma?

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Shafts of long bones

Usually in extremities and pelvis

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ALL vs AML. Which one has circulating lymphoblasts vs circulating myeloblasts

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ALL= circulating lymphoblasts

AML= circulating myeloblasts (w auer rods too)

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What will you see in a peripheral smear of CML?

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Myeloid cells in all stages of maturation

Increased basophils and blast cells

Blast cells >20% in a blast crisis

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What are Reed-Sternberg cells?

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Germinal center B cells that have undergone a malignant transformation

(Hodgkin lymphoma)

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Which type of leukemia has the Philadelphia chromosome?

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CML

Philadelphia chromosome is a translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22

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Who is most likely to get osteosarcoma?

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13-16 year old boys

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What will you see in the urine of 90% of kids with neuroblastoma?

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Catecholamines will be elevated (dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine…..the most common primary site is the ADRENAL gland!!)

32
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You work at family practice and you think your pediatric patient has cancer. Can you refer them to just any old oncologist?

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NO, must send them to a ~pediatric~ oncologist

Idk she made this weird distinction

33
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What is the most common sign of retinoblastoma?

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Leukocoria

Strabismus, nystagmus, and red inflamed eye are others

34
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What is the most common primary site of a neuroblastoma?

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Adrenal gland

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What is the MOST COMMON malignancy of childhood?

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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)

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What will you see on the peripheral smell of acute myeloid leukemia AML?

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Circulating myeloblasts 20% or more

Auer rods
******

37
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What causes Superior vena cava syndrome?

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A ~mediastinal mass~ like the one in HODGKIN LYMPHOMA smushing against the superior vena cava

38
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What specific kind of cells are associated with Hodgkin lymphoma?

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Reed-Sternberg cells**

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What the most common primary bone malignancy in pediatrics?

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Osteosarcoma

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Is there an association between Down syndrome and ALL?

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Yes

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What will you see on the CBC of someone with AML?

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SHITLOADS of WBCs

20% of patients have WBC>100,000 at diagnosis

42
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How do you diagnose AML?

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Bone marrow biopsy with 20% or more blasts that are of myeloid origin

43
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Is CML common in childhood?

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No

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What is the difference between the abdominal tumors in neuroblastoma vs nephroblastoma?

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Neuroblastoma: firm, fixed, irregular shape that usually extends beyond midline

Nephroblastoma: smooth, firm, well demarcated and rarely crosses midline

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Which parts of the body are most commonly affected by rhabdomyosarcoma?

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Head and neck

46
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What is leukocoria?

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White pupillary reflex under age 2

47
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A 15 year old boy comes in with pain above his knee and he says it’s keeping him from skateboarding. What should you suspect?

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Osteosarcoma

***most common in distal femur

48
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What is the clinical presentation of rhabdomyosarcoma?

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Painless progressively enlarging mass*****

Orbital rhabdo- eyes bulging out***

Bladder rhabdo- distended bladder**, hematuria, pelvic mass

49
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What are the cardinal signs of a bone tumor?

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Bone pain over involved area

Mass formation +/- soft tissue involvement

Fracture through area

Antalgic gait (limping)

50
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Who does better with brain tumors: children or adults?

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Children

51
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In children with nephroblastoma (Wilms Tumor), does it usually affect one or both kidneys

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One

52
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Is tumor lysis syndrome an emergency ?

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YES

53
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What is the second most common abdominal tumor in children?

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Nephroblastoma (Wilms tumor)

54
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Can you inherit retinoblastoma from your parent?

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Yes

55
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What kind of cancer has bone pain at NIGHT

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Ewing sarcoma

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What are the clinical manifestations of neuroblastoma?

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Abdominal mass that is firm, fixed, irregularly shaped, and usually extends beyond midline***

Bone pain

Fever, weight loss, irritability, abdominal pain

57
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What kind of disorder is CML?

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A myeloproliferative disorder.

Uncontrolled proliferation of mature and immature granulocytes

58
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How do you treat CML?

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Tyrosine kinase inhibitor

Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (only consistently curative intervention)

59
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Who does better with Hodgkin lymphoma: children or adults?

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CHILDREN**

60
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What is the most common intraocular tumor in pediatrics?

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Retinoblastoma

61
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Does leukocoria ALWAYS mean it is retinoblastoma?

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NO!!! There are several causes, don’t freak out the parents.

62
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What is the most common solid neoplasm outside the CNS?

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Neuroblastoma

63
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When i say Painless cervical or supraclavicular lymphadenopathy, you say:

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Hodgkin lymphoma

64
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What should you think if your patient has bone pain that is worse at night?

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Ewing sarcoma

65
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When should you be most anticipating tumor lysis syndrome?

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When you first start a cancer patient on chemo

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What is the brain tumor TRIAD of presenting symptoms?

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Morning headache

Vomiting

Papilledma (optic disc swelling due to high ICP)

67
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What is the second most common primary bone tumor in pediatrics?

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Ewing sarcoma

68
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What should you do if you see leukocoria in a childd

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Refer to ophtho

69
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What is the best diagnostic study for brain tumors?

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MRI (takes 30 min)

70
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What kinds of bones are affected by osteosarcoma?

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LONG bones (metaphysis)****

Usually the distal femur

71
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What is the most common SOLID tumor of childhood?

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Brain tumors

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