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Semester 3 - Urinary > Session 9 - Cancers of the Urinary System > Flashcards

Session 9 - Cancers of the Urinary System Flashcards

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Name three main risk factors for prostate cancer

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  • Age
    • Family history
    • Race
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How is age a risk factor for prostate cancer?

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  • There is a correlation with increasing age

* Uncommon in men younger than 50

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How is family history a risk factor for prostate cancer?

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  • 4x increased risk
    • If one 1st degree relative is diagnosed with prostate cancer before age 60
    • After 60 diagnosis probably age related
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How is prostate cancer related to race?

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• Incidence in asian < Caucausian < Afro-Carribean

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Give the usual presentation of prostate cancer

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• Vast majory asymptomatic
	• Urinary symptoms
		○ Benign enlargement of prostate
		○ Bladder over activity
		○ +/- CaP
	• Bone pain 
		○ Advanced metastatic
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Give an unusual symptom of prostate cancer

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haematuria

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Outline how prostate cancer is diagnosed

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• A digital rectal examination
• A serum PSA
○ Used to assess wether or not a biopsy in necessary
• If it is, carried out via a TransRectal UltraSound guided biopsy of prostate
• Lower urinary tract symptoms are treated with a TransUrethral Resection of Prostate

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8
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Give 5 factors influencing treatment decisions in prostate cancer

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MADBP
	• Age
	• Digital Rectal Exam
	• PSA level
	• Biopsies
	• MRI scan and bone scan
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9
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What are the three different results you can get from a digital rectal exam?

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  • Localised (T1/2)
    • Locally advances (T3)
    • Advanced (T4)
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What can biopsies tell us about the advancement of prostate cancer?

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• Gleason grade

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What is a Gleason grading?

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• Pathologist adds together grading score of most common cell type and adds to highest graded prostate tissue

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Give three treatments for established prostate cancer

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• Surveillance
○ Watch cancer, tumor not severe enough to outweigh risks of treatment
• Radical prostateectomy

Radiotherapy - External beams or low dose brachytherapy

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Give three treatments for developmental prostate cancers

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  • High intensity focused ultrasound
    • Primary cryotherapy - freeze the prostate
    • Brachytherapy - High dose (small rods implanted in prostate)
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14
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How can metastatic prostate cancer be treated?

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• Hormones
○ Surgical castration, medical castration
• Palliation

Single-dose radiotherapy, bisphosphonates, chemotherap

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Give three ways to treat locally advanced prostate cancer

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  • Surveillance
    • Hormones
    • Hormones & radiotherapy
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What is haematuria?

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  • Blood in urine

* Classified as visible or non-visible

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17
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What does it mean if haematuria is visible?

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• On investigation there is a 20% chance a malignancy is present

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18
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What does it mean if haematuria is non-visible?

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• Can be symptomatic or asymptomatic

Detected via microscopy or urine dipstick

19
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Give three causes of haematuria

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  • Cancer
    • Other

Nephrological

20
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Give four types of cancer which can cause haematuria

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  • Renal cell carcinoma
    • Upper tract transition cell carcinoma
    • Bladder cancer
    • Advanced prostate cancer
21
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Give five non-cancerous causes of haematuria

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  • Stones
    • Infection
    • Inflammation
    • Benign prostatic hyperplasi

Nephrological

22
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What questions must be taken on investigating the history of someone with haematuria?

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  • Smoking
    • Occupation
    • Pain levels
    • Other UTI symptoms
    • Family history
23
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What should be looked for on examination of someone with haematuria

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  • BP
    • Abdominal mass
    • Varicocele – collection of veins in the scrotum (‘bag of worms’)
    • Leg swelling
    • Assess prostate by DRE (male) – Size, texture
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What investigations should be done for haematuria?

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  • Urine culture
    • Cytology
    • FBC
    • Ultrasound
    • Flexible cystoscopy
25
Outline the epidemiology of bladder cancer
* 7th most common cancer in the UK, but incidence decreasing] * Male to female ratio 2.5:1 and 90% are transitional cell carcinomas
26
Give three large risk factors for bladder cancer
* Smoking * Occupational exposure * Schistomiasis
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How much does smoking increase risk of bladder cancer?
• 4x increased risk
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Give three examples of occupational exposure increasing risk of bladder cancer
* Rubber or plastics manufacture (arylamines) * Handling of carbon, crude oil, combustion (polyaromatic hydrocarbons) * Painters, mechanics, printers, hairdressers
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Outline the staging of bladder cancer
* 75% of cancers are superficial * 5% are in situ * 20% are muscle invasive
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Give three types of bladder cancer which all have different treatments
* High risk non-muscle invasive TCC (transitional cell carcinoma, you simpleton) * Low risk non-muscle invasive TCC Muscle invasive TCC
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Give two treatments for high risk non-muscle invasive TCC
* Check cystoscopies | * Intravesical chemotherapy/immunotherapy
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Give a treatment for low risk non-muscle invasive TCC
• Check cystoscopies
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Give two courses of treatment for muscle invasive TCC
• Potentially curative ○ Radical cystectomy or radiotherapy (+/- chemotherapy) ○ Not curative • Palliative chemotherapy/radiotherapy
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What is a radical cystectomy?
• Removal of the urinary bladder
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What can be done after a radical cystectomy to simulate a bladder?
* A piece of ileum may be used to make a conduit from the ureters to the abdomen, where urine can be collected in a bag * May also attempt to reconstruct the bladders from a piece of small intestine
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Outline the epidemiology renal cell carcinoma
* 8th most common cancer in the UK, making up 95% of all upper urinary tract tumours * Male to female ratio of 3:2 and 30% have metastases on presentation
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Give three risk factors for RCC
* Smoking * Obesity * Dialysis
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Where does RCC mestatasise to?
* Lymph nodes * Up the renal vein * Vena cava into right atrium * Into subcapsular fat (perinephric spread)
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What is the established treatment for RCC?
• Surveillance • Radical nephrectomy ○ Removal of kidney, adrenal, surrounding fate and upper ureter • Partial nephrectomy
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Give a developmental treatment for RCC
• Ablation | ○ Removal of tumour via erosive process
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Give two palliative treatments for RCC
* Molecular therapies targeting angiogenesis | * Immunotherapy
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What is the epidemiology of Upper Tract Transitional Cell Carcinoma (TCC)
* Only 5% of malignancies of URT (Rest are RCC) * 5% due to spread of cancer from bladder * 40% of cancers of the URT spread to bladder
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Give four investigations for Upper Tract TCC
``` • Ultrasound • CT urogram • Retrograde pyelogram (inject contrast into ureter) • Ureteroscopy ○ Biopsy ○ Washings for cytology ```
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What is the treatment for upper tract TCC?
• Nephro-ureterectomy Removal of the kidney, fat, ureter and cuff of bladder

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