What is a disease caused by abnormal and excessive growth of cells in the body?
What is Cancer
100
What does Palliative mean?
What is Relieving, but not curing
100
An X-Ray is used in a variety of ways to detect what?
What is Pathologic Conditions
100
What does MUGA stand for?
What is mulitple-gated acquisitions (scan)
100
When chromosomes of normal or tumor cells are examined for breaks, translocations, or deletions of DNA, what kind of laboratory test is that?
What is Cytogenetic analysis
200
Name 2 differences that Malignant tumors have that Benign tumors don't have?
What is rapidly multiplying, invasive and infiltrative, anaplastic and undifferentiated, or metastatic
200
Pertaining to the combination of radioisotope and a drug
What is radiopharmaceutical
200
Why would a doctor use an MRI to visualize liver masses?
An MRI is better at giving detail in soft tissues that have more water molecules.
200
What does PACS stand for?
What is picture archival and communications system
200
If you had to measure CA-125 in the blood, what would you use?
What is Protein Marker Tests
300
What means the process of forming new blood vessels?
What is angiogenesis
300
Radionuclides emit three types of Radioactivity:
What is alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma rays.
300
If a patient underwent surgical resection of her breast mass, What kind of therapy do you think a doctor would recommend, considering that her tumor was large and she had one positive lymph node?
What is Adjuvant Therapy
300
What "Gy" stand for?
What is gray
300
This type of nuclear medicine imaging provides pictures(scintigrams) of the lymphatic system.
What is Lymphoscintigraphy
400
If diagnosed with Hodgkin Disease and the combination was ABVD what is the Regimen of B?
What is Bleomycin
400
What is injected intravenously to evaluate myocardial perfusion?
What is Thallium-201
400
When a patient is under Diagnosis and a tumor spreads to distant sites because it was ______. The oncologist recommend that they begin ______ as soon as possible.
What is metastatic, chemotherapy
400
What does "bx" stand for?
What is Biopsy
400
What is the diagnostic technique that projects and retrieves high-frequency sound wayves as they echo off parts of the body?
What is Ultrasonography
500
A new ultrafast CT scanner that can produce a three dimensional image of a beating heart and surrounding blood vessels is called? And the process is called?
What is "64-slice" CT Scanner, and CT angiography
500
A patient was having palpitations in the early evening. An ECG revealed possible left ventricular hypertrophy. The physician order an ____ to rule out _________.
What is Echocardiography(ECHO), Vavular Heart Disease
500
What does "GM-CSF" stand for?
What is granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
500
Name 2 forms of Cancer that Alkylating Agents treat?
What is Non-Hodgkin or Hodgkin Lymphoma,Brain, Ovarian, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia(CLL), Tesicular, Lymphoma, Mulitple myeloma.