Oncology Nursing – Questions With Verified
Solutions
Routes of metastisis ✔️Ans - local seeding
blood borne metastasis
lymphatic spread
Most common metastisis ✔️Ans - blood born metastasis is the most
common form or seeding
Fastest spreading type of metastasis ✔️Ans - lymphatic due to lymphatic
systems
Cancer classifications ✔️Ans - solid and hematological cancers
What is a solid tumor? ✔️Ans - associated with the organ which the cancer
arises from (breast cancer or lung cancer)
What is a hematological cancer? ✔️Ans - come from blood cell forming
tissues (leukemias, lymphomas, multiple myeloma)
What is the most common type of cancer? ✔️Ans - carcinoma
Where do carcinomas come from? ✔️Ans - epithelial cells that cover the
inside and outside surfaces of the body
Where do sarcomas come from? ✔️Ans - bone and soft tissue (fat, blood
vessels, muscle, fibrous tissue)
Where do leukemias come from? ✔️Ans - blood-forming tissue of the bone
marrow and abnormal build up of WBC that build up in the bone marrow,
crowding out the normal cells
What happens when the normal cells are displaced in the bone marrow?
✔️Ans - harder for the body to get O2, control bleeding and fight infections
Where do lymphomas come from? ✔️Ans - begins in the lymphocytes, T
and B cells
, Where do melanomas come from? ✔️Ans - begins in melanocytes that
contain melanin (skin cancer)
What is specific for brain cancer? ✔️Ans - primary tumor from brain,
secondary from metastisis
What is specific for a benign tumor? ✔️Ans - takes up space, but not
cancerous
can cause neural/vascular issues such as increased ICP, necrosis and must be
removed for that reason
What is the purpose of grading? ✔️Ans - Grading classifies the cellular
aspects of the cancer
What is the purpose of staging? ✔️Ans - Staging classifies the clinical
aspects of the cancer and the degree of metastasis at diagnosis
Grading and Staging help do what? ✔️Ans - Describes the tumor and helps
to develop a treatment plan
What is the hallmark sign of metastasis? ✔️Ans - Clumps of cells are a
hallmark of metastisis
What is dysplasia? ✔️Ans - Dysplasia is a problem with maturation
What are risk factors of cancer? ✔️Ans - Genetics
Age/Gender
Long term or overwhelming stressors
Obesity and Dietary Factos
Chemicals (Carcinogens)
Physical Carcinogens
Viral Carcinogens
Heliobacter pylori infection (H. pylori)
Immune function
What are the 7 signs of cancer? ✔️Ans - CAUTION
C - change in bowel or bladder habits
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