Radio and Chemo Flashcards
Microscopic invasion of surrounding normal tissue will need?
Multiple frozen section
Local modality used in the treatment of cancer
Radiotherapy
External beam
Teletherapy
Internal beam
Brachytherapy
Radionuclide used in the treatment of well-differentiated thyroid cancer
Radioactive iodine I131
Radionuclide used for bony metastasis
Strontium89
Tumors with ___ growth fractions and ___ generation times are more susceptible to chemotherapy
High
Short
Cell cycle specific chemotherapy needs prolonged ?
Exposure to repeated doses
Father of chemotherapy
Paul Ehrlich
Cause severe marrow and lymphoid hyperplasia
Nitrogen mustards
Nitrogen was used for?
Hodgkin’s and Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Shown to accelerate progression of childhood leukemia
Folic acid
Main treatment for disseminated malignant diseases
Systemic chemo
Most important determinant of a successful surgical therapy
-absence of distant metastasis and no local infiltration