Staging Grading

Question 1

How much the cells appear different from their original form. Healthy cells are well differentiated; cancer cells are poorly differentiated.

Answer 1

Dedifferentiation (anaplasia)

Question 2

A measure of the cancer’s severity.

Answer 2

Grading

Question 3

Means of determining the size and spread of the cancer from its original site.

Answer 3

Staging

Question 4

Staging determined by various diagnostic techniques.

Answer 4

Clinical Staging

Question 5

If determined by the pathologist’s report its called.

Answer 5

Pathologic Staging

Question 6

T stands for the size of the tumor, N stands for the number of lymph nodes positive for cancer, and M stands for the presence of distant metastasis.

Answer 6

TNM staging

Question 7

If cancer cells appear only at the original site and have not invaded the organ of origin.

Answer 7

Carcinoma in situ (CIS)

Question 8

Cancer that begins in an organ.

Answer 8

Primary Tumor

Question 9

When a cancer spreads to another site in the body from that primary tumor, the new tumor is referred to as.

Answer 9

Secondary or Metastatic