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100

What is the most common receptor subtype for BRCA1 carriers?

Triple negative high grade, most often invasive ductal 

100

What is the most common type of skin cancer?

Basal cell carcinoma

100

What dose a CC (Completeness of cytoreduction score) of 1 mean?

Size of residual disease is <2.5 mm 

100

Name the inguinal hernia that is located lateral to the inferior epigastric vessels. 

Indirect inguinal hernia

100

What is the name of the three incision Esophagectomy which includes a cervical incision, a thoracotomy and an abdominal incision?

McKeown 

A right thoractomy and laparotomy (Ivor-Lewis)

Abdominal incision And neck incision only (transhiatal) 

100

This point, located one third of the distance from The ASIS to the umbilicus is the classic site of maximal tenderness in acute appendicitis 

McBurney’s point

200

Name this breast pathology characterized by invasion of cancer cells into the dermal lymphatics?

Inflammatory Breast Cancer

200

What is the stain to use to differentiate between lipoma and liposarcoma?

MDM2

200

How many regions are used in the peritoneal cancer index?

13

200

Another name for colonic pseudoobstruction 

Ogilvie’s Syndrome

200

A gastric conduit derives its blood supply from this vessel

Right gastroepiploic 

200

Cullen’s sign which is characterized by periumbilical ecchymoses is characterized by 

acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis 

300

This trial, evaluated omitting the sentinel lymph node biopsy for both T1 and T2 HR positive HER2 neu negative breast cancers. 

INSEMA trial

300

What is the preferred management of Merkel cell carcinoma in N+ disease?

1.) Wide local excision of primary 

2.) Regional node dissection
3.) Radiotherapy to nodal basin 

300

Per the NCCN guidelines, what is the limit of PCI for consideration of cytoreduction in gastric cancer?

PCI =/<10

300

Name the surgery described, during a difficult gallbladder you transect the gallbladder leaving a posterior wall/infundibulum and you do not suture close the orifice while leaving a surgical drain

Subtotal fenestrated cholecystectomy 

300

What is the argued drawback/limitation of a transhiatal esophagectomy?

Limited lymph node harvest in the chest

300

What is the most common cause of small bowel obstruction?

Adhesions 

400

This medication is given in the adjuvant setting for those BRCA 1/2 patients with breast cancer

Olaparib 

400

What are the margins required for small, low risk squamous cell cancers of the skin?

4-6 mm margins 

400

This is the term for a type of intraperitoneal chemotherapy used under laparoscopy with pressurized CO2.

PIPAC 

Pressurized intraperitoneal chemotherapy 

400

Surgical management of toxic megacolon from C diff colitis

Total abdominal colectomy with end ileostomy

400

Name the study that was a landmark trial that compared neoadjuvant carboplatin and paclitaxel with radiation therapy versus surgery alone in esophageal and EGJ cancers. 

CROSS trial 

400

Named after a German surgeon, this triad of jaundice, fever/chills, and right upper quadrant pain is. The classic presentation of acute ascending cholangitis

Charcot’s triad

500

What is the the relative risk reduction (aka benefit) to radiotherapy after breast conserving surgery for DCIS?

50% risk of recurrence with RT compared to those who dont undergo RT 


The Early Breast Cancer Trialists Collaborative Group performed an individual patient-level meta-analysis of these four randomized trials, which included 3,729 women. The addition of RT after BCS reduced the recurrence risk by about 50% (HR 0.49; 95% CI 0.41 to 0.58; p

500

What is the chromosomal translocation seen in 90% of DFSP patients?

PDGFB/COLIA1 fusion protein 

500

What is the name of the flawed study that is often quoted to say there is no benefit of HIPEC in colorectal cancer patients?


PRODIGE 7 


Flaws: Used 30 min oxaliplatin bath time for colorectal cancer, now most centers use Mitomycin C 

500

This type of hernia often is seen after incisions and is defined by a hernia sliding between the layers of the abdominal wall often seen with intact fascia

Intraparietal hernia

500

What is the preferred perioperative therapy regimen for Esophagogastric junction cancers that have a CPS >1? (name each drug not just abbreviation)

Fluorouracil 

Leucovorin

Oxaliplatin

Docetaxel 

Durvalumab 

500

In trauma surgery, this bedside ultrasound exam evaluates for free fluid in the pericardial, perihepatic, perisplenic, and pelvic spaces

FAST exam 

Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma