Mutations
T/F and %
Breast Cancer
Treatment
Miscellaneous
100
True or False. A breast cancer gene is inheritable.
True
100

True or False. 85-90% of women with breast cancer have no family history.

True

100
True or False. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in women in the united states
True.
100

This imaging technique uses low-dose x-rays and is the standard screening tool for BC. 

Mammogram

100

This is the primary color associated with BC awareness

Pink!!

200

Name the two mutated genes that cause breast cancer.


BRCA 1 and BRCA 2


200

True or False. About 380,000 women with breast cancer are diagnosed before they are 40 years of age yearly. 

False.

200

New guidelines suggest _______ are not necessary every month.

Breast self-examinations

200
A mammogram shows a suspicious abnormality, so the patient receives additional imaging and potentially a tissue sample. This is no longer considered a routine screening. 

Diagnostic screening

200

Minority groups make up a small percentage of participants in _________ making it harder to determine whether treatments work equally well across populations. 

clinical trials
300

Unlike an inherited germline mutation, this type of mutation develops during a person's lifetime and is found only in certain cells or tissues.

Somatic Mutation

300

___% decline of BC deaths since 1989

44%

300

What is the estimated percentage of women that survive cancer when detected in the earliest stages.

99%

300

A suspicious breast lesion cannot be definitively diagnosed as cancer from imaging alone. This procedure is used to obtain tissue for microscopic examination. 

Biopsy

300

True or False. A woman's risk of breast cancer is higher if her mother, sister or daughter had breast cancer.

True


400

This is the most common type of breast cancer making up 80% of the diagnoses

Invasive Ductal Carcinoma

400

Approximately how many American women have survived breast cancer?


4.3 million


400

This type of breast tissue can make cancers harder to see on a mammogram and is itself associated with increased breast cancer risk.

dense breast tissue


400

This is the name of the procedure that is used to remove the part of the breast that has cancer and some normal tissue around it.

Partial Masectomy

400

Name 3/7 P's that help guide a breast self-exam

Position, Perimeter, Palpation, pressure, pattern, practice, planning.

500
What is the difference between BRCA1 and BRCA2?
BRCA1 is found to cause both breast and ovarian cancer (prostate in males). BRCA2 only causes breast.
500

Black women have a 5% lower breast cancer incidence rate than white women BUT a ___% higher mortality rate

38%

Triple-negative breast cancer

500

A breast tumor tests negative for estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors, and HER2. This subtype if known by these three words.

triple-negative BC

500

A patient's tumor is estrogen-receptor positive. This class of drugs can block estrogen signaling/reduce estrogen effects on BC cells.

Hormone/endocrine therapy
500

Name 3 reasons for racial disparities across healthcare and BC care. 

underrepresentation in clinical trials, limited access, fear of being discriminated against/treated poorly.

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