ONCOLOGY

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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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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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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Hepatobiliary Cancer

Feb 18, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Hepatobiliary Cancer

Fig. 5.1 A large HCC in a 75-year-old HCV-positive patient treated by selective internal radiation treatment (SIRT). (a) Angiographic image during SIRT. (b) CT after SIRT. (c) The specimen after…

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Pulmonary Malignancies

Feb 18, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Pulmonary Malignancies

Fig. 15.1 The da VinciTM robotic system (courtesy of Surgical Intuitive, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA) Instruments EndoWrist instruments are designed to provide surgeons with natural dexterity and a full range…

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