Cancer

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what is not a type of blood cancer?
lymphoma
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what is not a cause of blood cancer?
genetic predispositions
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what is false about acute myloid leukaemia?
increase in B and T cells
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what is false about AML blood tests?
normocytic, hyperchromic aneamia
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what is false about acute lymphoblastic leukaemia?
WBCs are MPO positive
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what is false about chronic myeloid leukaemia?
large numbers of circulating myloblasts
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which statement is not associated with chronic lymphoid leukaemia?
uncontrolled proliferation of T lymphocytes
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what is hodgekins lymphoma?
malignant B cells accumulate in lymph nodes, however tumour is predominately inflammatory cells
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what are the signs/symptoms are not characteristic of lymphoma?
fractures
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what is false about outcomes of hodgkin lymphoma blood tests?
lymphopenia and thrombocytopenia in early stage
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what is false about outcomes of non-hodgkins lymphoma blood tests?
microcytic, normochromic anaemia
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what is not a sign or symptom of multiple myeloma?
leukocytosis
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what is not an outcome of multiple myeloma
60% 10yr survival rate
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what is false about serine protease?
prostate cancer is 2nd highest cancer killer in uk
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what is carcinoembryonic antigen a marker for?
advanced adenocarcinoma
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what is CA 15-3 antigen a marker for?
breast cancer
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what is CA 125 antigen a marker for (raised in 50% of all cases)?
epithelial ovarian cancer/ intra-abdominal cancers
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what is CA 19-9 antigen a marker for (lewis a blood group glycoprotein)?
pancriatic, gastric, colorectal carcinoma
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what may carcinoembryonic antigen may be raised due to?
smoking, hepatitis
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