Section 2 Flashcards
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Lung cancer
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Palliative care
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A term used to describe treating the symptoms such as pain without curing the cancer
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Colorectal
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Brain cancer
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Leukemia
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- malignant neoplasms of blood
- immature, nonfunctioning WBCs proliferate and crown out RBCs and platelets
- classified as acute or chronic
- also classified as lymphoid or myeloid (according to the type of WBCs)
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Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL)
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- most common cancer in children
- can be seen in adults
- immature B lymphocytes, and sometimes immature T lymphocytes, are the malignant cells
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Acute Myelogenous leukemia (AML)
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- most common acute leukemia in adults
- immature myeloid cells proliferate in the bone marrow and lack The ability to differentiate into specific functional blood cells
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Acute leukemias
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- signs and sensor symptoms
- increase infections
- frequent bruising and bleeding
- Epistaxis (nosebleeds)
- anemia
- fatigue
- bone pain
- infiltration into this CNS causes
- headaches visual disturbances nausea vomiting seizures in
- tender lymph nodes
- liver and spleen enlargement
- unexplained weight loss
- fever
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Chronic lymphocytic and Myelogenous leukemias
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- gradual onset of fatigue lymph node enlargement, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, recurrent or persistent infections, low-grade fever, anemia, weight loss, bleeding, bruising and bone pain
- Philadelphia chromosome is found in chronic Myelogenous leukemia and represents, chromosomal translocation which activates oncogenes
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Lymphomas
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- Cancers of the lymph system
- classified as Hodgkins or non-Hodgkin’s derived from WBCs (lymphocytes)
- lymphomas form solid organ tumors in the lymph tissue and later in the bone marrow
- lymphomas can be present in liver or spleen
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Hotchkins lymphoma
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