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A nurse is discussing preinvasive epithelial tumors of glandular or squamous cell origin. What is the nurse describing? 1.Tumor in differentiation 2.Dysplasia 3.Carcinoma in situ 4.Carcinoma beyond (meta) situ - Answer-3. .Carcinoma in situ Early stage growths that are localized to the epithel...

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Advanced Pathophysiology Exam 1
Cancer Questions and Answers
A nurse is discussing preinvasive epithelial tumors of glandular or squamous cell origin.
What is the nurse describing?
1.Tumor in differentiation
2.Dysplasia
3.Carcinoma in situ
4.Carcinoma beyond (meta) situ - Answer-3. .Carcinoma in situ
Early stage growths that are localized to the epithelium and have not invaded are called
carcinoma in situ.
Carcinoma in situ is early stage growth and may contain dysplastic cells, but dysplastic
cells do not define carcinoma in situ.

A patient has a tissue growth that was diagnosed as cancer. Which of the following
terms could best apply to this lesion?
1.Neoplasm
2.Lipoma
3.Meningioma
4.Hypertrophy - Answer-1.Neoplasm
The term neoplasm can refer to a cancerous growth.
Lipomas are benign growths.
A meningioma is a benign tumor.
Hypertrophy refers to tissue overgrowth, but not cancer.

An oncologist is discussing when a cancer cell appears to lose differentiation. Which of
the following is the oncologist describing?
1.Autonomy
2.Anaplasia
3.Pleomorphic
4.Metastasis - Answer-B Anaplasia
The loss of differentiation is anaplasia, not autonomy.
Malignant cells are pleomorphic.
A malignant tumor's ability to spread far beyond the tissue of origin is metastasis.

Pleomorphic: having more than one form," 1886, from pleo- "more" + -morphy "form,
shape,"
A red cell distribution width (RDW) test is a measurement of the range in the volume
and size of red cells.

From which of the following classes of substances/structures could be a possible tumor
marker be found?
1.Red blood cells
2.Apoptotic cells

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