Oncology Nursing Questions with Complete Solutions Leading sites of new cancer cases - Correct Answer Male- prostate Female- Breast Leading cause of cancer deaths - Correct Answer Male- lung and bronchus Female- lung and bronchus without shape or differentiation, small and round - Correct Answer Anaplastic A Developmental gene expressed at an inappropriate time, capable of transforming a normal cell into a cancer cell - Correct Answer Oncogene cancer development; also called carcinogenesis - Correct Answer Oncogenisis substances that change the activity of a cell's genes so that the cell becomes a cancer cell. May be chemicals, physical agents, or viruses - Correct Answer Carcinogen COMMON CARCINOGENS - Correct Answer Alcohol Steroids Arsenic Asbestos Benzene Chemotherapy drugs Diesel exhaust formaldehyde new cell growth not needed for normal body growth - Correct Answer Neoplasm 1 / 2
new, nonmalignant cell growth not needed for normal body growth - Correct Answer Benign neoplasm cancerous, new growth of cells by invasion that is not needed for normal growth and development - Correct Answer Malignant neoplasm a tumor formed in a specific tissue as a result of a carcinogenic agent or event - Correct Answer Primary tumor a tumor formed as a result of breaking off from a primary tumor and spreading to distant sites (metastisis) - Correct Answer Secondary tumor cell division by exact duplication -Most tissues and organs stop growing by cell division after development is complete - Correct Answer Mitosis growth that causes tissue to increase in size by enlarging each cell-normal cells - Correct Answer Hypertrophy growth that causes tissue to increase in size by increasing the number of cells- cancer - Correct Answer Hyperplasia the amount of time it takes for a tumor to double in size by mitotic cell divisions - Correct Answer Doubling time the low white blood cell counts that occur after cancer chemotherapy- usually 7 to 10 days after administration - Correct Answer Nadir chemicals that can cause tissue damage on direct contact - Correct Answer Vesicant the period of time necessary for one cell to enter and complete one round of cell division by mitosis - Correct Answer Generation time
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