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Where are pancoast tumors located?
apex of lung
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What is the most common brain tumor in children?
Medulloblastoma
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What is the brain tumor that seeds down into the spinal cord?
Medulloblastoma
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Is high LET or low LET more damaging?
high LET
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If the table still moves after you let go of the pendant, what could be wrong?
short circuit
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Do you bill contrast as simple or complex?
Complex
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Which foods are high is protein?
A) fish & eggs
B) fruits & vegetables
C) ? & beans
- A & C
- fish, eggs, beans & ?
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What is a constant error in treatment called?
systematic
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What 2 structures are important are important when making a face mask?
nose & chin
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What is the proper method for collecting a urine specimen to determine if someone has an UTI?
clean catch / mid stream
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Why is the gantry 10-15 degrees on a super-clav?
to protect the cord and the esophagus
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Half Value Layer:
Assume the HVL of some material is 3mm.
How much material is needed to reduce the beam intensity to 12.5% of its orginal?
9mm
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Body mechanics question.
You are shown 4 pictures of a man lifting a box. You have to pick out the correct one
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An electron block must be _____cm away from the patients skin
5cm
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Which chemo drug is cardiotoxic?
deoxyrubicin (same as Adriamycin but the boards will use deoxyrubicin)
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When treating the parotid gland with standard fractionation to 5000 cGy what is most likely to occur?
xerostomia
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Be able to pick out a hyperfractionated schedule of treatment out of 4 listed
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If you needed to look up what chemicals were in a product in your department it would be best to check the ____________
MSDS - material safety data sheets
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Placing an immobilization device on a patient without consent can be considered:
battery
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What cant you determine from an AP port film?
anterior/posterior shift
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What is not acceptable way to get rid of a radioactive source?
Putting it in a steel container and throwing it out with the other garbage
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What is the order of the cell cycle?
prophase - metaphase - anaphase - telophase
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What would cause angina?
blood clots, heart attacks, pulmonary embolism, pericarditis, a panic attack, a lung infection
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How often must a leak test be performed
every 6 months
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What is hyperalimentation?
artificial supply of nutrients
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