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What tumor causes shoulder pain that radiates down the arm and causes atrophy of the hand muscles?
pancoast tumors
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What is the Karnofsky's scale used for?
it is used to rate a patients performance status and can be used to evaluate their status after a procedure
100 is normal------0 is dead
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List most sensitive to least sensitive -
gonads; ureters; bladder; uterus
gonads, bladder, uterus, ureters
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How does basal cancer spread?
almost never metastasize but can to the skin & bone
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Which of these would do well with hormone treatment: prostate; breast; testes; ovaries
prostate & breast
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Where would the lower lobe of the lung drain to?
drains back to the hilum - or can drain back to the celiac axis
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Who regulates radioactive materials?
NRC
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What type of cancer involves the true vocal cord?
laryngeal cancer of the glottis
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What is a common treatment for esophageal cancer?
surgery
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What type of cancer is not caused by occupational exposure to carcinogens?
Leukemia's, Lymphoma's .....etc
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What is the most common lung cancer?
NSCLC - non small cell lung cancer
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Does half life increase, decrease or stay the same as the source decays?
stays the same
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Which organ drains to the Para aortic nodes?
kidneys
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What is Leukocytosis?
raised white blood cells count
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What syndrome is associated with esophageal cancer?
Plummer Vinson syndrome
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What is the order of lymph node drainage for a seminoma?
para-aortics
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What do you use when doing intraoperative XRT?
a mobitron intrabeam or an intrabeam system
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Which portion of the colon is near the fundus of the uterus?
The sigmoid colon
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What type of cancer would represent a dot on a ct scan above the femoral heads
rectum or bladder
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An AP film of the pelvis is good for interpretation of all the following except?
R/L; S/I; In/out; AP
AP
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What would block neutrons?
need a waxy substance, concrete
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What 2 have uniform lymph spread?
Seminoma
non-seminoma
hodgkins
non-hodgkins
seminoma, hodgkins
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List blood cells from most sensitive to least senistive
crypt cells, endothelial cells, parenchymal cells, erythrocytes
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What is the most common cancer in children?
Leukemia
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What cancer is the hockey stick field used for?
seminoma
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