Cancer: The Basics
Non-cancerous tumors are called ___ while cancerous tumors are called ___
What are benign and malignant?
Number of Stages of Tumors
Reasons to have surgery
What is to remove area with cancer cells and lymph node dissection?
Common adverse side effects
What is: Cancer Related Fatigue (CRF), Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Polyneuropathy (CIPN), Cardiotoxicity, Pain, and Radiation Induced Fibrosis (RIF)/Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome?
The order of the Cancer Continuum of Care
What is: Prevention, Pre-treatment screening, Pre-habilitation, Inpatient rehabilitation, Outpatient rehabilitation, Supervised group exercise, Independent community-based exercise, Palliative care, Hospice, AND Ongoing research
When cancerous cells are found somewhere in the body where they did not originate, it is called…
What is metastasis?
Stages of Tumor Grading
What are GX-G4?
Reasons to have radiation
What is powerful and effective at killing cancer cells and works weeks to years post treatment?
What is physical, emotional, and/or cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer or cancer treatment?
The 5 Levels of Prevention
What are Primordial, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary?
How many women and men get diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime?
What is 1 in 3 women and 1 in 2 men?
Stage in which metastasis has occured
What is stage 4?
Reasons to have chemotherapy
What is a powerful tool for killing cancer?
Interventions for CRF
What is exercise, bed rest, medication, and modalities?
The reason for oncology rehabilitation
What is treating adverse effects by prevention, decreasing the intensity of, and management?
Name the 4 most frequently diagnosed cancers
What are Breast, Lung, Prostate, and Colorectal?
Grade in which cell looks like parent cell
What is G1?
Reasons to have hormonal and biological therapies
What is it’s only for tumors that feed off of hormones and slows the growth and can prevent reoccurence?
Definition of cardiotoxicity
What is physical damage to heart muscle tissue resultant of exposure to chemotherapeutic intervention and/or radiation?
Most important part of the Cancer Continuum of Care
What is ongoing research?
What cancer has the highest death rate?
What is lung?
Stage that has lymph nodes on the same side as the cancerous cells
What is stage 3?
Side effects of treatments
What is Radiation Induced Fibrosis (RIF) (radiation) and has a load of adverse effects (chemo)?
Common assessments for CRF
What are the Brief Fatigue Inventory (0-10 scale), Cancer-Related Fatigue Distress Scale, and 10-Point Rating Scale for Fatigue?
Part of the 5 levels of Prevention physical therapy is involved in
What is Tertiary? (Treating the adverse effects caused from the treatments for cancer)