Neoplasia — Flashcards

If a patient inherits or develops a mutation in a _____ gene, the complementary allele must be deleted/mutated before cancer develops

Arsenic is associated with _____ carcinoma of the skin

_____ is a malignant tumor of nasopharyngeal epithelium

What is the main distinguishing feature between follicular adenoma and follicular carcinoma of the thyroid?_____

What is the associated tumor that results from point mutation of the KIT oncogene?_____

_____ is a warty neoplasm of genital skin, often caused by low-risk HPV strains, and is often large

Embryonal carcinoma is a non-seminoma germ cell tumor and therefore has a relatively _____ prognosis

What pathology is associated with increased telomerase activity?_____

What type of gene is the APC gene? _____

Overexpression of Bcl2 in the follicle of a lymph node results in a lack of apoptosis of _____ during somatic hypermutation