Chemotherapy and immunotherapy Questions with
Correct Answers
Cancer Treatment Goals: Correct Ans ✓✓ -cure
-control
-palliation
Cancer Treatment Correct Ans ✓✓ Curative therapy
-surgery alone or periods of adjunctive systemic therapy
-timeframe to "cure" may differ according to the tumor and its
characteristics
Control Treatment
-initial course and maintain therapy
Palliation goal Correct Ans ✓✓ -relief or control of symptoms
-maintain quality of life
-palliative care and treatment are not mutually exclusive and can take
concurrently
Personalized cancer medicine Correct Ans ✓✓ -genetic information is
used to customize decisions about: prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
Targeted Therapy Correct Ans ✓✓ -aims at a cancer's specific genes or
proteins that contribute to cancer growth and survival
-biopsy can help determine whether a timor has the specific target
, Pharmacogenomics Correct Ans ✓✓ study of genomic variation
associated with drug responses
The downside to personalized cancer medicine Correct Ans ✓✓ -not all
types of cancer have personalized treatment options
-costly
-time consuming
-not covered by insurance
Antineoplastic therapy Correct Ans ✓✓ -use of chemicals given as a
systemic therapy for cancer
-mainstay for most solid tumors and hematologic cancers
-can off cure, control, or palliative care
chemotherapy cure Correct Ans ✓✓ -burkitts lymphoma
-wilms tumor
-neuroblastoma
-acute lymphocytic leukemia
-hodgkins lymphoma
-testicular cancer
Chemotherapy control Correct Ans ✓✓ -breast cancer
-non-hodgkins lymphoma
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