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Chapter 20 - Neoplasms & Cancer

Hannah Lehrer MSN, RN
Horizontales
Altering DNA improperly.
Cancer patients are often malnourished for multiple reasons, requiring a nutritionally packed diet when they are able to eat. If they are extremely malnourish, total _________ nutrition will be initiated.
Pain is generally a ______ symptom of cancer.
Benign tumors are not considering life threatening unless it is an area such as the _______ where the pressure affects can become critical.
Genetic factors, viruses, radiation, chemicals, biologic factors including chronic ___________, increased age, diet, and hormones can all be risk factors for cancer.
This can result when a tumor compresses a duct or passageway from an external position, inside or around the structure.
Tumor cells are usually made of ______________, nonfunctional cells that do not appear organized.
Suppression of _____ ________ is the limiting factor of chemotherapy possibly causing dangerous or deadly side effects.
Some cancerous tumors secrete growth factors causing ______________, to promote tumor development.
Refers to local spread of cancer.
A sign of cancer could be low levels of erythrocytes and ____________.
Severe tissue wasting.
Cancer _____________ genes present in the body can inhibit neoplastic growth.
Verticales
Programmed cell death.
Often times chemotherapy involves a _____________ of two or more drugs to attack the cancer in multiple ways.
-sarcoma or -carcinoma means the tumor is ___________.
No clinical signs of the cancer.
______________ and radiation both destroy good & bad cells. Treatments are administered in repeated intervals to maximize tumor cell death, but minimize effects on healthy tissue.
This type of weight loss is always concerning and warrants further investigation.
Another name for specialization. This is required for a particular cell's function.
Means spread to distant sites by blood or lymphatic channels.
Substances, enzymes, antigens, or hormones produced by neoplastic cells. Can be used to screen high risk individuals or diagnosis, monitor the course of malignancy.
________ tumors usually consist of differentiated cells, is encapsulated and expands but does not spread.
_______ cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer.
A _ _ _ (3 letters) scale is used to stage cancer. This involves the size of the primary tumor, extent of involvement of regional lymph nodes, and spread of the tumor.
Malignant cells do not _________ to each other and break loose from a mass, often infiltrating other tissues.