Exam 18: Oncology

The ________ is used to stage malignant melanoma.

The Hickman,Broviac,and Groshong are ________.

Intravesical chemotherapy is a medical procedure using a catheter to insert a chemotherapy drug into the ________.

In addition to the lumpectomy performed for her breast carcinoma,Joan Bentley also had a/an ________ biopsy done to remove the first site that receives drainage from the primary breast tumor.

Which word parts do you need to build a medical word that means "disease (of a)lymph gland"?

Which is a medical procedure that classifies cancer by how well differentiated the cells appear under a microscope?

Which procedure is done in conjunction with extensive cancer surgery to remove possible sites of metastasis?

Cancer of an embryonal cell of the kidney that occurs in young children is called Wilms' tumor or ________.

Hodgkin's disease is a type of ________.

Which is NOT a factor contributing to the development of cancer?

A/an ________ is one segment of a DNA molecule that contains enough amino acid pairs to produce one protein molecule.

What is tumor grading?

________ inhibit mitosis and keep a cell from dividing excessively.

CA 15-3 is a tumor marker to detect the presence of ________.

The human papillomavirus causes genital warts and chronic inflammation that can lead to ________ cancer in women.

Which cell organelles are small sacs that contain powerful digestive enzymes to destroy a bacterium or virus that invades the cell?

Which of the following is NOT a blood test to detect early signs of cancer?

To remove the basal cell carcinoma from Diane Jorgenson's face,the physician performed a wide ________ of a tumor,which is the removal of the tumor plus a wide margin of normal tissue around it.

________ is a condition in which cancerous tumors are present in multiple sites in the body.