Prognosis
Surgical Therapy
Radiation/Chemotherapy
Other types of therapy
100
These are are the categories of the tool used to stage cancer
What are Tumor, Nodule, Metastasis 
100
Name of the surgical procedure used to treat breast cancer
What is a mastectomy?
(When in doubt, take it out)
100
Therapy used to decrease risk of metastasis and for triple negative cancer
What is Chemotherapy
100
These are the hormones that are targeted
What are estrogen and progesterone
200
This receptor is associated with a less favorable prognosis
What is HER2
200
True or false: If a mastectomy is performed, no adjuvant therapy is needed
False
200
Therapy often combined with lumpectomy
What is radiation?
200
Funtion of HER2 gene
Promotes cancer cell growth if overexpressed
300
Factors associated with faster growth rate
What are obesity, premenopausal, history of hormone replacement therapy
300
Complication that is more often seen in radical and modified radical mastectomy compared to simple and partial mastectomy
What is upper extremity lymph edema
300
Common chemotherapy drugs used to treat breast cancer?
What are cyclophophamide, doxorubicin, and docetaxel
300
Mechanism of action of aromatase inhibitors
Inhibits the conversion of androstenedione/testosterone to estrone
400
Tracy's breast cancer stage
What is stage 1?
400
Preferred treatment for DCIS
What is a simple mastectomy?
400
Mechanism of action of cyclophosphamide
Cross links DNA at guanine
400
This drug increases the risk of endometrial cancer
What is Tamoxifen
500
The survival rate of patients with same stage of breast cancer as Tracy
What is 99%?
5 year survival based on SEER Staging
Localized: 99%
Regional: 86%
Distant: 27%
500
This blood vessel is commonly used in another surgical procedure. (cardiac)
What is the left internal mammary artery? Or left internal thoracic artery
500
Mechanism of action of Docetaxel
What is hyper stabilization of microtubules leading to inhibition of mitosis
500
What is the mechanism of action of Trastuzumab?
Monoclonal antibody that block the proliferation signal transduction pathway initiated by HER2