SKIN CANCER
Leading preventable cause of skin cancer.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
Hemophilia A results from a deficiency of this clotting factor.
What is Factor VIII?
This is most common inherited bleeding disorder.
What is von Willebrand disease?
An increased number of abnormal white blood cells is characteristic of this disease.
What is leukemia?
This was the year in which Sickle Cell Anemia was first described by James B. Herrick.
What is 1910?
This skin cancer is associated with chronic sun exposure & appears as a scaly, red lesion.
What is squamous cell carcinoma?
This inheritance pattern is most commonly associated with Hemophilia A.
What is X-linked recessive?
This protein assists with coagulation.
What is von Willebrand coagulation protein?
Fatigue in leukemia often occurs because of a decrease in these oxygen-carrying cells.
What are red blood cells?
This is the primary symptom associated with Sickle Cell Crisis.
What is pain?
This is the deadliest form of skin cancer.
What is melanoma?
A nurse should avoid administering medications by this route to a patient with hemophilia due to risk of bleeding.
What is the intramuscular (IM) route?
If this lab result is low, it means vWB.
What is ristocetin cofactor?
This treatment uses drugs to destroy rapidly dividing cancer cells/
What is chemotherapy?
Sickle cell crisis could best be described as a _______
occlusive crisis.
What is vasoocclusive?
This skin cancer commonly appears as a pearly, waxy nodule & rarely metastasizes.
What is basal cell carcinoma?
This is classic symptom of hemophilia.
What is hemarthrosis?
These are things to avoid when you have von Willebrand disease.
What is NSAIDs, anticoagulants, & anti-platelets?
ALL and AML are examples of this type of leukemia classification.
What are acute leukemias?
This is the only accurate test for sickle cell disease.
What is hemoglobin electrophoreses?
The ABCDE assessment is primarily used to evaluate this type of lesion. What does it stand for?
What is melanoma?
What is asymmetry, border, color, diameter & evolution/evolving/elevation?
This medication is given to patients with mild hemophilia A.
What is DDAVP (desompressin)?
This lab test often evaluates platelet function and can be abnormal in vWD.
What is bleeding time?
The Philadelphia Chromosome is a result of a translocation between these 2 chromosomes.
This leukemia is most commonly associated with this genetic abnormality.
What are chromosomes 9 and 22?
What is AML (chronic myelogenous leukemia)?
Double Jeopardy!!
I am the first line drug for sickle cell anemia, and this is my mechanism of action.
What is Hydrea (hydroxyurea)?
What is inhibiting ribonucleotide reductase, halting DNA synthesis, inducing fetal hemoglobin, and suppressing bone marrow activity?