CNBY Test 4

The Gleason grade scoring and grading groups are both used for which cancer?

Prostate

What is the number 1 risk factor for lung cancer?

Cigarette smoke

What is the diagnostic test most widely used and reliable way to detect colorectal cancer?

Colonoscopy

What are the overall two main types of lung cancer?

NSCLC, SCLC; Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Small Cell Lung Cancer

Most breast cancers start in which area of the breast tissue?

Ducts

Which is a risk factor for prostate cancer?

Age

The Luminal A breast cancer subtype is characterized by:

ER+ or PR+

Which subtype of breast cancer typically as the worst prognosis?

Basal (triple negative)

This is an image of normal (non cancer) tissue. What is a symptom of potential cancer in this tissue?

Cough or difficulty breathing

Early menarche, alcohol, no children, and BRCA mutations are risks for which cancer?

Breast cancer

If a patient is a non-smoker but comes in with a cough and difficulty breathing, which subtype of lung cancer would they most likely have?

Adenocarcinoma

This is an image of a normal (non cancer) tissue. What is a symptom of potential cancer in this tissue?2

Lump in breast

Prostate

ETS family fusion genes

Lung (adenocarcinoma)

EGFR, KRAS, BRAF

Breast (IDC and ILC)

GATA3, FOXA1, PTEN loss

Colorectal

APC, WNT, TGF-B

This is an image of a normal (non cancer) tissue. What is a symptom of potential cancer in this tissue?3

Bowel movement changes

If a patient has been diagnosed with ER+ or PR+ breast cancer, what medicine would be used to black estrogen signaling?

Tamoxifen

Your relative said they have a thoracentesis procedure to biopsy potential cancer? What cancer might they have?

Lung cancer

For this cancer during diagnostic biopsy with a core needle, typically several pieces are obtained (not just one sample) to assess histologically under the microscope for grading and confirming cancer.

Breast cancer

Regarding diagnostic imaging procedures…

_____ is to breast cancer as _____ is to lung cancer.

Mammogram, CT scan

This is an image of a normal (non cancer) tissue. What is a symptom of potential cancer in this tissue?4

Difficulty urinating