Week 11: General Concepts of Neoplasms

Question 1

cancer is the latin word for ____

Answer 1

crab

Question 2

mass of tissue that grows excessively, and keeps growing even if you remove the stimulus that started it

Answer 2

neoplasm

Question 3

innocent-acting tumor

Answer 3

benign tumor

Question 4

evil-acting tumor

Answer 4

malignant tumor

Question 5

another word for tumor

Answer 5

neoplasm

Question 6

characteristics of benign tumors

Answer 6

• small
• slow growing
• non invasive
• stay localized

Question 7

characteristics of malignant tumors

Answer 7

• large
• fast growing
• invasive
• metastasize

Question 8

how are benign tumors named?

Answer 8

Usually designated by adding “-oma” to cell type

Question 9

benign tumor of glandular cells

Answer 9

adenoma

Question 10

benign tumor of smooth muscle cells

Answer 10

leiomyoma

Question 11

benign tumor of chondrocytes

Answer 11

chondroma

Question 12

benign tumor that has finger-like projections

Answer 12

papilloma

Question 13

benign tumor that projects upward, forming a lump

Answer 13

polyp

Question 14

when normal cell goes to a tumor cell

Answer 14

transformation

Question 15

tumor cell proliferation can be termed…

Answer 15

progression

Question 16

malignant tumor of glandular cell

Answer 16

adenocarcinoma

Question 17

malignant tumor of squamous cells

Answer 17

squamous cell carcinoma

Question 18

carcinomas that arise in epithelial tissue

Answer 18

adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma

Question 19

sarcomas arise in mesenchymal tissue

Answer 19

angiosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma

Question 20

malignant tumor of blood vessel

Answer 20

angiosarcoma

Question 21

malignant tumor of skeletal muscle cell

Answer 21

rhabdomyosarcoma

Question 22

term for “everything except epithelial tissue”

Answer 22

mesenchymal

Question 23

what is included in mesenchymal tissue?

Answer 23

bone, cartilage, connective tissue, muscle, etc.

Question 24

______ arise in epithelial tissue

Answer 24

carcinoma

Question 25

_____ arise in mesenchymal tissue

Answer 25

sarcoma

Question 26

condition in which cells sometimes show microscopic changes

before they turn cancerous

Answer 26

dysplasia

Question 27

grades of dysplasia

Answer 27

mild, moderate, severe

Question 28

once a cell becomes _________, it

probably will turn into a _____ cell

Answer 28

severely dysplastic, cancer

Question 29

development of secondary tumor implants in distant tissues

Answer 29

metastasis

Question 30

____ of all patients with malignancies have

mets at the time of diagnosis

Answer 30

half

Question 31

two main pathways by which tumors

metastasize

Answer 31

lymphatic, hematogenous

Question 32

first, tumors spread to ______,

starting with the _____ lymph node

Answer 32

local lymph nodes, sentinel

Question 33

after the sentinel lymph nodes, they are carried through lymphatics to _____________

Answer 33

distant places in the body

Question 34

carcinomas prefer to spread via…

Answer 34

lymphatic metastasis

Question 35

sarcomas prefer to spread via…

Answer 35

hematogenous metastasis