Oral Cancer (100% Correct Answers)

What types of cancer can be called oral cancer? correct answers Throat, mouth, larynx, sinuses, salivary glands, and skin. What is unique to oral cancer? correct answers Often difficult to treat and high rate of recurrence What are the treatment options for oral cancer? correct answers Surgery...

What is the most common type of oral cancer? correct answers Squamous cell carcinoma - >90% of Oral cancers What are the 5 types of oral cancer? correct answers SCC, Minor salivary cancer, melanoma, lymphoma How common is H&N cancer? correct answers 8th most common, 14th most fatal - 8 deat...

What to document if you find a lesion? correct answers Anatomical Location Borders Color, configuration, and consistency/texture Diameter/Dimensions(mm) Type of Lesions How many lymph nodes are there? correct answers 10 What to ask if you find a lesion... correct answers History-how long ...

14.01/100,000 correct answers How common is oral cancer in Kentucky? African Americans correct answers What ethnicity has the worst 5-year survival rate? 5th through 6th decades of life correct answers What is the most common age for oral cancer? white males correct answers Who has the high...

The nurse teaching young adults about behaviors that put them at risk for oral cancer includes a. discouraging use of chewing gum b. avoiding use of perfumed lip gloss. c. avoiding use of smokeless tobacco. d. discouraging drinking carbonated beverages. correct answers c. avoiding use of smokele...

When assessing the mouth of a patient, the nurse notices a thickened white patch on the floor of the mouth. What term is used to document this finding? correct answers -Leukoplakia A patient with a salivary gland tumor is scheduled to undergo a parotidectomy. What may be affected as a result of t...

Oral Cancer is the only major cancer to not have a reduction in mortality rate over the past ________. Most others have had improvements due to better early detection. correct answers the past 30 years There is a school of thought that the reason we have such a high mortality rate is because ...

50% of Erythroplakia correct answers SCCA (40% Severe Dysplasia* and *Carcinoma-in-situ and 10% Moderate Dysplasia) 40% of Erythroplakia correct answers *Severe Dysplasia* and *Carcinoma-in-situ* (50% SCCA and 10% Moderate Dysplasia) Treatment for Erythroplakia correct answers Surgical E...

Mouth cancer is a malignant disease which can occur in any part of the mouth correct answers What is mouth cancer Growth or an ulcer of the oral mucosa for more than two weeks Some early changes are just red/white plaques unusual lumps correct answers How does mouth cancer usually present? ...