Exam 23: Neoplastic Disease

Malnutrition is more prevalent in those who have been sick for longer periods of time, had multiple treatments, and have certain types of cancer including lung, pancreatic, GI, and ovarian cancers.

Discuss the diagnosis and complications of pancreatic cancer.

The most _______________ chemotherapeutic agents include cisplatin, methotrexate, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide.

What percent of cancer patients are purportedly cured by surgery?​

Radioimmunotherapy can also deliver radiation to a specific tissue through attachment to a(n) _______________ or other ligands.

Cancer of the lung and bronchus remains the number one killer in both men and women.

What simple and inexpensive recommendation might help AS with his xerostomia?

To help combat the mucositis what would the registered dietitian recommend?

_______________, or alterations in taste, can have a profound effect on a patient's ability to ingest an adequate amount of nutrition.

Epidemiologic studies have found that heavy consumption of _______________ increase cancer risk, especially for colorectal, bladder, prostate, breast, gastric, oral, and pancreatic cancers.

_______________ is the study of changes in gene activity that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence.

What is the average protein need per day for non-stressed cancer patients?

Palliative surgery is used to ameliorate disease and/or treatment-related symptoms and cure the cancer.

It is estimated that 60% of patients with head and neck cancers will present with malnutrition at the time of diagnosis.

African-American women have a 10% _______________ incidence rate than white females for all cancers combined.

In 2014, how many people are estimated to die from cancer in the United States?

The most common cause of nausea and vomiting in cancer patients is radiation therapy.

Nausea and vomiting related to radiation are dependent on the field being irradiated.

What term is used to infer the spread of cancer from the primary site to nearby or distant areas through the blood or lymph?

Pharmacologic doses of what amino acid may benefit patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation?​