Oncology Indian Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
Master Oncology with OnCourse flashcards. These spaced repetition flashcards are designed for medical students preparing for NEET PG, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, MBBS exams, and other medical licensing examinations.
Oncology Flashcard Deck - 39 Cards
Flashcard 1: The Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a serum tumor marker that has major associations with _____ and pancreatic cancers
Answer: colorectal
Flashcard 2: _____ is the treatment of choice for nasopharyngeal cancer stage III and IV
Answer: Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy
Flashcard 3: _____ syndrome is non-metastatic hepatic dysfunction seen in patients suffering from RCC
Answer: Stauffer
Flashcard 4: Lung cancers with a EML4-ALK fusion protein are typically EGFR _____ / KRAS negative*bonus: treat with..?
Answer: negative
Flashcard 5: Proteasomal inhibitors are used to treat _____ and mantle cell lymphoma
Answer: multiple myeloma
Flashcard 6: _____ lung carcinoma may produce the posterior pituitary hormone ADH leading to SIADH
Answer: Small (oat) cell
Flashcard 7: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is usually seen in men in _____ to the seventh decade.
Answer: sixth
Flashcard 8: Renal cell carcinoma may present with systemic symptoms including _____ and weight loss
Answer: fever
Flashcard 9: Treatment of oligodendroglioma is surgery, _____therapy, and radiotherapy
Answer: chemo
Flashcard 10: Febrile neutropenia is a fever with an absolute neutrophil count < _____ /mm3 often seen during chemotherapy
Answer: 500
Flashcard 11: _____ adenocarcinoma is associated with the serum tumor markers CA 19-9 and CEA (less specific)
Answer: Pancreatic
Flashcard 12: Besides being indicated for all solid tumors bearing a PD-L1 mutation, Pembrolizumab is indicated for _____ Lymphoma and Colorectal Cancer due to Lynch Syndrome
Answer: refractory classical Hodgkins
Flashcard 13: Cytotoxic chemotherapy can result in hyper-_____; known as tumor lysis syndrome
Answer: uricemia
Flashcard 14: The symptoms of carcinoid syndrome may be triggered by _____ or emotional stress, which stimulate serotonin release from the tumor
Answer: alcohol
Flashcard 15: Doxorubicin can cause a _____ enterocolitis, a life-threatening acute transmural inflammation of the cecum
Answer: neutropenic
Flashcard 16: _____ of the esophagus is the most common type of esophageal carcinoma in America (location)
Answer: Adenocarcinoma
Flashcard 17: _____ Staging System for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) includes parameters BASABilirubinAlbuminTumor SizeAscitis
Answer: Okuda
Flashcard 18: _____ is due to increased PTH-rp secretion and presents similarly to hyperparathyroidism (e.g. hypercalcemia, hypophosphatemia)
Answer: Humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy
Flashcard 19: Tisagenlecleucel is a CAR T-cell Therapy that is indicated for relapsed _____ by targeting the CD19 antigen
Answer: B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL)
Flashcard 20: Which subtype of CA lung requires prophylactic cranial irradiation?_____
Answer: Small cell lung cancer
Flashcard 21: Serum albumin level is poor prognostic factors for Hodgkin's lymphoma
Answer: Serum albumin level is poor prognostic factors for Hodgkin's lymphoma
Flashcard 22: _____ is being used as the neoadjuvant regimen of choice in patients with borderline resectable pancreatic cancer and good performance status who can tolerate this aggressive regimen.
Answer: FOLFIRINOX
Flashcard 23: _____ is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome which presents with hypophosphatemia, osteomalacia and renal phosphate wasting.
Answer: Tumor-induced osteomalacia (TIO)
Flashcard 24: In the case of Hodgkin's Lymphoma, the pain in the lymph nodes _____creases following the intake of alcohol.
Answer: in
Flashcard 25: Osimertinib, as a third-generation EGFR inhibitor is effective against NSCLC with _____ mutation
Answer: T790M
Flashcard 26: The anticoagulant of choice for the management of cancer-associated thromboembolism is _____
Answer: low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH)
Flashcard 27: Pancreatic cancer has the highest association with which cancer syndrome?_____
Answer: Peutz Jeghers syndrome
Flashcard 28: How is the prognosis of MCNs of pancreas?_____
Answer: Poor
Flashcard 29: Both gastric and oesophageal carcinomas are treated with _____ regimen*consists of?
Answer: ECF
Flashcard 30: The first line rx for management of metastatic prostatic cancer is _____
Answer: hormone ablation
Flashcard 31: The oncological outcome of HCC is determined by the following criteria:_____
Answer: CLIP, OKUDA, BCLC, CUPI
Flashcard 32: Which molecular test for breast cancer can be used for ER/PR positive cancers only?_____
Answer: Oncotype Dx
Flashcard 33: Non-seminomatous germ cell tumors are radio_____
Answer: resistant
Flashcard 34: Most common paraneoplastic syndrome seen with RCC is _____
Answer: raised ESR
Flashcard 35: What is the ideal screening investigation of choice for a asymptomatic patient with high risk of lung cancer?_____
Answer: Low dose CT
Flashcard 36: _____ regimen includes 5-FU + Mitomycin C + Radiation for management of SCC of _____.
Answer: Nigro; anal canal
Flashcard 37: Urinary alkalization with sodium bicarbonate is _____ done for management of Tumor lysis syndrome.
Answer: not
Flashcard 38: _____ regimen includes 5-FU + Mitomycin C + Radiation for management of SCC of _____.
Answer: Nigro; anal canal
Flashcard 39: Anticoagulant of choice for the management of cancer-associated thromboembolism is _____
Answer: Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH).
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