ONCOLOGY

Epidemiology of Cancer

Mar 13, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Epidemiology of Cancer

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”> 3 Epidemiology of Cancer Thomas E. Stinchcombe QUESTIONS Each of the numbered items below is followed by lettered answers. Select the ONE lettered…

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Molecular Biology of Cancer • Part 1

Mar 13, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Molecular Biology of Cancer • Part 1

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”> 1 Molecular Biology of Cancer • Part 1 Robert A. Kratzke QUESTIONS Each of the numbered items below is followed by lettered answers….

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Molecular Biology of Cancer • Part 2

Mar 13, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Molecular Biology of Cancer • Part 2

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”> 2 Molecular Biology of Cancer • Part 2 Viralkumar Vaghani and George R. Simon QUESTIONS Each of the numbered items below is followed…

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Cancer Prevention

Mar 13, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Cancer Prevention

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”> 6 Cancer Prevention Lingling Du, Richard Chen, Daniel Morgensztern, and Rebecca Aft QUESTIONS Each of the numbered items below is followed by lettered…

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Etiology of Cancer

Mar 13, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Etiology of Cancer

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”> 4 Etiology of Cancer Shirish M. Gadgeel QUESTIONS Each of the numbered items below is followed by lettered answers. Select the ONE lettered…

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Cancer Screening

Mar 13, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Cancer Screening

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”> 5 Cancer Screening Megan E. Wren QUESTIONS Each of the numbered items below is followed by lettered answers. Select the ONE lettered answer…

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Adrenal Tumors

Feb 18, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Adrenal Tumors

Hereditary Tumor Syndrome Manifestation of Tumor Gene (chromosomal locus) Syndrome Prevalence of ACT Li-Fraumeni TP53 (17p13), hCHK2 (22q12.1), lq23 Soft tissue sarcoma, osteosarcoma, breast cancer, brain tumor, leukemia, ACC ACC,…

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Pancreatic Cystic Tumors

Feb 18, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Pancreatic Cystic Tumors

Injury-related and inflammation-related cysts (30%)   • Pseudocyst • Paraduodenal wall cyst • Infection-related cysts Neoplastic cysts (60%)   Ductal lineage   Mucinous type (30%)   • Intraductal papillary mucinous…

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Non-invasive and Invasive Breast Cancer

Feb 18, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Non-invasive and Invasive Breast Cancer

Fig. 14.1 Possible intraductal and discontinuous peritumoral spread of DCIS These issues warrant thorough preoperative assessment (usually breast MRI). Most DCIS are non-palpable lesions (mostly microcalcifications) so careful preoperative localization…

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Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Feb 18, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Fig. 6.1 Axial contrast-enhanced arterial phase MDCT demonstrates dilatation of the distal common bile duct (*) due to isoattenuating adenocarcinoma (arrow) of the pancreatic head. The main pancreatic duct of…

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