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Oncology Nursing – Questions & Answers
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- NURSING ONCOLOGY
Oncology Nursing – Questions & Answers
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Oncology Nursing – Questions & AnswersLeading sites of new cancer cases ✔️Ans - Male- prostate
Female- Breast
Leading cause of cancer deaths ✔️Ans - Male- lung and bronchus
Female- lung and bronchus
without shape or differentiation, small and round ✔️Ans - Anaplastic
A Developmental gene expressed at an inappropriate time, capable of
transforming a normal cell into a cancer cell ✔️Ans - Oncogene
cancer development; also called carcinogenesis ✔️Ans - Oncogenisis
substances that change the activity of a cell's genes so that the cell becomes a
cancer cell. May be chemicals, physical agents, or viruses ✔️Ans - Carcinogen
COMMON CARCINOGENS ✔️Ans - Alcohol
Steroids
Arsenic
Asbestos
Benzene
Chemotherapy drugs
Diesel exhaust
formaldehyde
new cell growth not needed for normal body growth ✔️Ans - Neoplasm
new, nonmalignant cell growth not needed for normal body growth ✔️Ans -
Benign neoplasm
cancerous, new growth of cells by invasion that is not needed for normal
growth and development ✔️Ans - Malignant neoplasm
a tumor formed in a specific tissue as a result of a carcinogenic agent or event
✔️Ans - Primary tumor
, a tumor formed as a result of breaking off from a primary tumor and
spreading to distant sites (metastisis) ✔️Ans - Secondary tumor
cell division by exact duplication
-Most tissues and organs stop growing by cell division after development is
complete ✔️Ans - Mitosis
growth that causes tissue to increase in size by enlarging each cell-normal
cells ✔️Ans - Hypertrophy
growth that causes tissue to increase in size by increasing the number of cells-
cancer ✔️Ans - Hyperplasia
the amount of time it takes for a tumor to double in size by mitotic cell
divisions ✔️Ans - Doubling time
the low white blood cell counts that occur after cancer chemotherapy- usually
7 to 10 days after administration ✔️Ans - Nadir
chemicals that can cause tissue damage on direct contact ✔️Ans - Vesicant
the period of time necessary for one cell to enter and complete one round of
cell division by mitosis ✔️Ans - Generation time
Characteristics of normal cells ✔️Ans - -Limited cell division
1. to develop normal tissue
2. to replace lost or damaged normal tissue
to ensure that each organ has adequate number of cells at their functional
peak ✔️Ans - Apoptosis
specific appearance, size, shape ✔️Ans - Show specific morphology
Characteristics- continued ✔️Ans - -Small nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio- size of
nucleus is small
-Perform specific differentiated functions
-Adhere tightly together
-Are nonmigratory
-Grow in an orderly and well-regulated manner
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