SCC

Question 1

What carries a greater risk for oral cancer, cigarettes or cigars?

Answer 1

Cigars

Question 2

Reverse smoking is associated with cancer where?

Answer 2

In the palate

Question 3

Nonsmokers with oral cancer are more likely to be male or female?

Answer 3

Female

Question 4

Plummer-Vinson syndrome causes?

Answer 4

Sideropenic dysphagia

Question 5

HPV related oral cancer typically occurs in what parts of the mouth? At what age?

Answer 5

tonsils and base of tongue in young people

Question 6

90% of oral cancers are in those aged?

Answer 6

Over 45

Question 7

The highest percentage of oral cancers occur at what site? What is the percentage?

Answer 7

Tongue, 50%

Question 8

Most of the oral cancers on the tongue occur on what part?

Answer 8

Posterior lateral, 2/3 of cases

Question 9

What type of lesions tends to have a good prognosis?

Answer 9

Exophytic lesions

Question 10

What lesion has the worst prognosis?

Answer 10

Erosive or ulcerative

Question 11

What is the appearance of a classic late lesion?

Answer 11

Crater with indurated base and rolled borders

Question 12

Lip cancer typically follows?

Answer 12

Actinic cheilitis

Question 13

Cancer on which lip has a good prognosis?

Answer 13

Lower lip, upper lip is poor

Question 14

What affect can tongue cancer have on function?

Answer 14

Loss of tongue mobility and disturbed speech

Question 15

Where does tongue cancer metastasize?

Answer 15

Submandibular and subdigastric nodes

Question 16

Survival rates for tongue cancer are lowest at what site?

Answer 16

Base of tongue

Question 17

This type of oral cancer has the highest predilection for females and is least associated with smoking

Answer 17

Gingiva or alveolar mucosa

Question 18

The gingiva are a site of lesions for what type of tobacco?

Answer 18

Smokeless tobacco

Question 19

Cancers in the soft palate typically occur in what region?

Answer 19

Lateral posterior regions

Question 20

What is the issue with soft palate cancers that makes survival low?

Answer 20

Tend to be large and metastatic at time of diagnosis

Question 21

What are two examples of verrucous carcinoma?

Answer 21

Snuff dippers cancer and Ackerman’s tumor

Question 22

What is the degree of dysplasia in verrucous carcinoma? How quickly does it grow?

Answer 22

Slow growing, little dysplasia

Question 23

Well-differentiated SCC takes on what pattern of appearance?

Answer 23

Paving stone pattern

Question 24

The cytoplasm of well-differentiated SCC can be described as?

Answer 24

Eosinophilic