Chemo Drugs
True or False: All chemo requires PPE
True
True or False: it is okay to use other herbal supplements and non-pharmacologic interventions to manage symptoms prior to speaking to a healthcare professional.
False: Supplements like St. John's Wort can affect the MOA of chemotherapies and reduce effectiveness
Cancers that develop in the lymph nodes
What are lymphomas?
How can you verify PICC placement?
True or False: Chemotherapy can only be administered intravenously.
False
This chemotherapy drug class requires a central line
What are vesicants/irritants?
These are common side effects of chemotherapy
What is nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea
A cancer that arises from the blood forming cells in the bone marrow.
What are leukemias?
True or False: you can access a power port with a regular Huber needle.
True
Chemotherapy precautions are maintained for this many days after the last day of chemo.
What is 7?
This class of chemo drugs are known to cause secondary malignancies
What are alkylating agents?
The process where cancer cells break away from their original location and form in other areas of the body.
What is metastasis?
These cancers develop in the brain and spinal cord.
What are gliomas?
This type of access is surgically placed and MUST be surgically removed.
What are tunneled catheters?
What is myelosuppression?
This chemo requires frequent urinary pH labs
What is Methotrexate?
What are oncogenes?
These are malignant tumors of the connective tissues.
What are sarcomas?
True or False: a midline can be used to deliver TPN
False
This refers to therapy that is given in addition (or after) the primary treatment.
What is adjuvant therapy?
These chemotherapy drugs can cause hemorrhagic cystitis and is almost always given with Mesna and extra IV hydration.
What is ifosfamide and Cytarabine?
Whis condition related to cancer presents with high uric acid and potassium, but low calcium.
What is tumor lysis syndrome?
This class of cancers arise from the epithelial tissue that covers the surface of or line the internal organs and structures.
What are carcinomas?
Vascular access that is inserted through the basilic or cephalic vein and terminates in the SVC.
This term refers the use of chemo PRIOR to a surgical intervention in an attempt to shrink tumors.
What is neo-adjuvant therapy?