Moh's is used for ___________ cancer
skin cancer (non-melanoma's)
What do you do when you find out someone is operating with a fake license
contact arrt
Know sanctuary sites for leukemia
CNS
What quadrant is the spleen in
Left upper quadrant
What artery directly arises from the aorta
Pulmonary arteries
If a patient is immunosuppressed, what type of isolation
reversed isolation
Wilms tumor present with what symptoms
painless abdominal mass
Why do you angle for a supraclav field?
so there is no hot-spot on the tangent
What are tumors that arise from mesenchymal
tissue
sarcomas
When treating 5000 cGy to the parotid, what side effect could occur?
xerostomia
If the temperature is high, what can it effect?
dose and dose rate
Which chemo drug is cardio toxic
deoxyrubin or adriamycin
What cancer is most likely to metastasis to both sides of the neck
base of the tongue, nasopharynx
How do you get rid of a radioactive source?
Dispose of it somewhere in your department until it decays
If you are treating a patient and notice that the wedge is put in wrong. What do you do?
stop the beam, and physics would have to recalculate
What is Strontium 90?
Strontium 90 is a beta emitter, used for the eye. Usually 3-5 treatments.
What is Strontium 89?
Strontium 89 is a systemic treatment given for bone mets.
Injected it helps patients who have wide spread bone mets
What do lasers cause the most damage to?
the retina
What is the most common site of spread of laryngeal cancer?
subdigastric nodes
What is the most common condition associated with adenocarcinoma of the esophagus
Barrett's esophagus
What is the most radiosensitive tissue?
bone marrow
What are the most sensitive blood cells in the body?
lymphocytes
The compensating filter is made for the patient but the doc decides to move iso 3cm.
What do you do?
you move the patient and make a new compensating filter
What is the most common histology for prostate cancer?
Adenocarcinoma
What is the most common histology of lung cancer
squamous cell