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Vascular Access
Chemo Basics
100

True or False: All chemo requires PPE

True

100

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 

100

Cancers that develop in the lymph nodes

What are lymphomas?

100

How can you verify PICC placement?

What is a chest X-ray?
100

True or False: Chemotherapy can only be administered intravenously.

False

200

This chemotherapy drug class requires a central line

What are vesicants/irritants?

200

These are common side effects of chemotherapy

What is nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea

200

A cancer that arises from the blood forming cells in the bone marrow.

What are leukemias?

200

True or False: you can access a power port with a regular Huber needle.

True

200

Chemotherapy precautions are maintained for this many days after the last day of chemo.

What is 7?

300

This class of chemo drugs are known to cause secondary malignancies

What are alkylating agents?

300

The process where cancer cells break away from their original location and form in other areas of the body.

What is metastasis?

300

These cancers develop in the brain and spinal cord.

What are gliomas?

300

This type of access is surgically placed and MUST be surgically removed.

What are tunneled catheters?

300
A condition in which bone marrow activity is decreased resulting in fewer RBCs, WBCs and platelets.

What is myelosuppression?

400

This chemo requires frequent urinary pH labs

What is Methotrexate?

400
HER2, EGFR, CMYC are all examples of this.

What are oncogenes?

400

These are malignant tumors of the connective tissues.

What are sarcomas?

400

True or False: a midline can be used to deliver TPN

False

400

This refers to therapy that is given in addition (or after) the primary treatment.

What is adjuvant therapy?

500

These chemotherapy drugs can cause hemorrhagic cystitis and is almost always given with Mesna and extra IV hydration.

What is ifosfamide and Cytarabine?

500

Whis condition related to cancer presents with high uric acid and potassium, but low calcium.

What is tumor lysis syndrome?

500

This class of cancers arise from the epithelial tissue that covers the surface of or line the internal organs and structures.

What are carcinomas?

500

Vascular access that is inserted through the basilic or cephalic vein and terminates in the SVC.

What is a PICC?
500

This term refers the use of chemo PRIOR to a surgical intervention in an attempt to shrink tumors.

What is neo-adjuvant therapy?