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What is neoplasia? |
Abnormal cellular growth and differentiation |
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What are the three changes that occur during neoplasia? |
Loss of control, cells will suffer transformation, change of metabolic need |
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Which cells suffer the change in neoplasia? and which are "innocent/supporting"? |
Parenchymal suffer change, & Supporting Stroma do no |
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Most benign tumors end in what suffix? exceptions? |
-oma exception: lymphoma is malignant |
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Note: "Which of the following are benign neoplasm?" - learn the exception |
eg. all -oma are benign except lymphoma, and others (learn) |
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Epithelial origin tumors are known as? |
Carcinoma |
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Mesenchymal origin tumors are known as? |
Sarcomas |
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Define Dysplasia |
disorderly proliferation (non neoplastic) - loss of cellular uniformity & orientation |
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Define Pleomorphism |
Variation in size & shape - hyperchromatic nuclei & more abundant mitosis than usual |
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What does "carcinoma in situ" mean? |
its when dysplasia affects the whole thickness of tissue i.e. beyond the basement membrane |
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What does anaplasia automatically mean? |
implies malignant tumor |
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Describe Anaplasia |
- Cellular pleomorphism & loss of nucleo-cytoplasmic ratio to (1:1) - abundant mitotic figures - loss of polarity & architectural structures |
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What is the normal nucleo-cytoplasmic ratio? |
1:4 or 1:6 |
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What behaviour/ characteristics do the bengin tumour follow? |
They resemble and retain cellular architecture with "normal" behaviour - lack anaplasia, well differentiated - microscopically & glossly innocent appearance |
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List the Mesenchymal tumors (benign - Malignant) |
Fibroma - Fibrosarcoma Lipoma - Liposarcoma Oseteoma - Osteosarcoma Chondroma - Chondrosarcoma |
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List the epithelial & related tissue tumours (blood, lymph, synovial fluid, mesothelium, brain) (benign - malignant) |
Hemangioma - Angiosarcoma (blood vessels) Lymphangioma - lymphangiosarcoma (lymph) n/a - Synovial sarcoma n/a - Mesothelioma (Malignant) n/a - Meningioma - Invasive meningioma |
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List the blood & related cells tumors (benign - malignant) |
n/a - Leukemias n/a - Malignant lymphomas (exception to -oma rule) |
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List muscle tissue tumours (benign - malignant) |
Leiomyoma - leiomyosarcoma Rhabdomyoma - Rhabdomyosarcoma |
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List epithelial tissue tumours (benign - malignant) |
Squamous cell papilloma - Squamous carcinoma & basal cell carcinoma Adenoma - adenocarcinoma |
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List respiratory tumours (benign - malignant) |
n/a - broncogenic carcinoma n/a - carcinoid tumour |
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List neuroectoderm tumour (benign - malignant) |
Nevus - Malignant melanoma |
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List Renal, liver and genital tumours (benign - malignant) |
Renal tubular ademoma - renal cell carcinoma Liver cell adenoma - hepatocellular carcinoma Transitional cell papilloma - transitional cell carcinoma Hydatidiform mole - choriocarcinoma seminoma n/a - embryonal cell carcinoma |
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List mixed tumors (benign - malignant) |
Pleomorphic adenoma - malignant mixed tumor of salivary glands origin fibroadenoma - malignant cystosarcoma phylloides (breasts) n/a - Wilms tumor (renal) Mature teratoma - immature teratoma (totipotential cells in gonads or embryonic rests) |
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What is most common tumor in breasts? is it benign or malignant? |
Fibroadenoma, benign & does NOT progress into carcinoma |
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Describe differentiation/anaplasia of Benign tumor |
Well differentiated. Structure may be typical of tissue of origin |
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Describe differentiation/anaplasia of Malignant tumor |
Some lack of differentiation with anaplasia. Structure is often atypical |
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Describe rate of growth of Benign tumors |
Progressive & slow. May come to a standstill or regress. mitotic figures are rare and normal |
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Describe rate of growth of malignant tumors |
Erratic and may be slow or rapid. mitotic figures may be numerous & abnormal |
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Describe the local invasion of benign tumors |
Usually cohesive and expansile well - demarcaed masses that do NOT invade or infiltrate surrounding normal tissue |
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Describe the local invasion of malignant tummors |
Locally invasive, infiltrating the surrounding normal tisues sometimes may be seemingly cohesive & expansile |
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Does benign tumor metastasis? |
no, absent |
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Does malignant tumor metastasis |
Always the larger & more undifferentiated the primary, the more likely they are metastasis |
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The malignant tumours are classified into what three stages? |
Well Moderate Undifferentiated (anaplastic) |
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What is the second most common death in USA/ |
Cancer (1/4 will develop some kind of neoplasm with gender, age & genetic difference or predisposition) remember: neoplasm is NOT the same as cancer |