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12 Cards in this Set
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local and systemic signs and symptoms associated with common cancers
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Pain is most common
General: Weight loss, fatigue, anorexia Localized vs distant May be obscured by concomitant disease |
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Local Signs and Symptoms of cancer
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Pain
Compression, obstruction, destruction of nerves -Mass -Bleeding - tumor erosion of blood vessels |
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pain, change in stool diameter, vomiting
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Colon cancer Local Signs and Symptoms
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CNS effects due to primary or metastatic tumor
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-Brain
Headache, visual disturbances, seizures, confusion, altered gait, projectile vomiting -Spinal cord Back pain, altered gait, paralysis |
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Anorexia -Cachexia
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A Systemic Manifestation
Observed with many common solid tumors -does not always correlate with decreased food intake Both fat and skeletal muscle loss Decreased lean body mass -Not reversed with feeding unless cancer is effectively treated |
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True or false.Fatigue of cancer is not relieved by sleep or resting
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True
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Systemic Manifestations of cancer
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Fatigue
Anorexia -Cachexia Sleep Disorders Anemia Paraneoplastic Syndromes |
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Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Secretion (SIADH)
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Characterized by hyponatremia with hypo-osmolality, elevated renal excretion of sodium and urine osmolality > plasma osmolality
Normal volume status -Most commonly seen in small cell lung cancer |
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Ectopic ACTH production (or ACTH-like substances)
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-Small cell lung cancer, carcinoid tumors, other lung cancers, pancreatic, others
-Truncal obesity, purple striae, hypertension, fatigue, moon face, glucose intolerance, edema, osteoporosis |
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increased risk of venous thrombosis due to hypercoagulable state
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Thromboembolic Disorders
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A Paraneoplastic Syndromes which is Common cause of death in patients with cancer
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Thromboembolic Disorders
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Weakness in limbs
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Lambert-Easton Myasthenic Syndrome: a type of Paraneoplastic Syndrome
-observed in SCLC |
