PATH 370 - Final Exam Practice Questions And Answers.

PATH 370 - Final Exam Practice Questions And
Answers



1. The cellular response indicative of injury due to faulty metabolism is
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Hydropic swelling jl




Lactateproduction
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Metaplasia
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Intracellular accumulations:intracellular accumulation jl jl jl




2. After surgery to remove a lung tumor,your patient is scheduled for
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chemotherapy, which will
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Selectively kill tumor cells jl jl jl




Stimulate immune cells to fight the cancer Have jl jl jl jl jl jl jl




minimal side effects
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Kill rapidly dividing cells:kill rapidly dividing cells
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3. All these cellular responses are potentially reversible except
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Necrosis
Metaplasia
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Atrophy
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Hyperplasia: Necrosis jl




4. A 17-year-old college-bound student receives a vaccine against an organ-
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ism that causes meningitis.This is an example of
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Primary prevention jl




Secondaryprevention
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Tertiary prevention
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Disease treatment: primary prevention jl jl jl




5. Which is not normally secreted in response to stress?
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Norepinephrine
Cortisol
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,Epinephrine
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Insulin: insulin
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6. A disease that is native to a particular region is called
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Epidemic
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Ethnographic: Endemic
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Tumor size jl




Localinvasion
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Cell differentiation jl




Metastasis:celldifferentiation
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8. Your patient is scheduled for a staging procedure.She wants to know what that
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means.The correct response is which of the following?
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It is a procedure for determining the extent of tumor spread
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It is a histologic examination of tissues to determine the degree of tumor
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differentiation
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Is based on exploratory surgery
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It is biochemical testing of tumor cells to determine the genetic basis of the tumo
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It is a procedure for determining the extent of tumor spread
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9. Thestageduringwhichthepatientfunctionsnormally,althoughthedisease
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processes are well established, is referred to as
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Latent
Subclinica
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10. Afterbronchoscopyandhistologicexaminationofasuspectedtumor,your jl jl jl jl jl jl jl jl jl




patient is diagnosed with primary bronchial carcinoma.Thus, the tumor
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Is secondary to cancer elsewhere in the body
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Has spread: Is malignant
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11. Tumor markers (Select all that apply.) jl jl jl jl jl




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Tumor markers are substances associated with tumor cells that may be helpful in
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identifying their tissue of origin and progression and proliferation of cancer cells. Most
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tumor markers are not very specific for cancer since normal cells in the tissue of origin also
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produce them.Tumor markers include prostatic-specific antigen.Some
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