Leukemias
This acute leukemia is most common in children.
What is ALL?
These cells are diagnostic for Hodgkin lymphoma.
What are Reed Sternberg cells?
Fever in a patient with ANC <500 is called this emergency.
What is neutropenic fever?
This staging system is used for most solid tumors.
What is TNM?
The most common histologic type of breast cancer.
What is IDC?
This chromosome is found in CML.
What is Philadelphia Chromosome?
Fever, night sweats, and weight loss are collectively called these symptoms.
What are B symptoms?
Facial swelling and distended neck veins suggest this emergency.
What is SVCS?
Smoking is responsible for approximately this percentage of lung cancers.
What is 80-90%?
HPV types most strongly associated with cervical cancer.
What is 16 and 18?
Acute leukemias have greater than this percentage of blasts in the marrow.
What is >/= 20% blasts?
Hodgkin lymphoma typically spreads in this pattern.
What is contiguous?
Back pain with new bowel or bladder dysfunction suggests this emergency.
What is malignant spinal cord compression?
Smoking is responsible for approximately this percentage of lung cancers.
What is NSCLC?
Postmenopausal bleeding should raise concern for this cancer.
What is endometrial?
This subtype of AML is strongly associated with DIC.
What is APL?
What is diffuse large B cell?
Hyperkalemia, hyperphosphatemia, hyperuricemia, and hypocalcemia characterize this syndrome.
What is TLS?
This marker is elevated in approximately 70% of hepatocellular carcinomas.
What is AFP?
This screening tool is most sensitive for high-risk women but less specific than mammography.
What is breast MRI?
This is considered to be the precursor to AML.
What is MDS?
This staging system is used for lymphomas.
What is the Ann Arbor Staging System? (Can also add w/ Cotswold Modifications)
This metabolic emergency is most commonly associated with squamous cell cancers and multiple myeloma.
What is hypercalcemia of malignancy?
New-onset diabetes after age 45 is a red flag for this cancer.
What is pancreatic cancer?
BRCA mutation carriers may undergo this surgery to reduce ovarian cancer risk.
What is prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy?