WorksheetsCancer & Oncology Nursing Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 9mins
Normal genes that slow down cell division and repair DNA mistakes.
Proto-Oncogenes
Tumor Suppressor Genes
Chromosomes
Oncogenes
The 3 steps of the cell cycle
Initiation
Interphase
Mitosis
Meiosis
Cytokinesis
The phase in the cell cycle where DNA synthesis and replication happens.
G0 phase
S phase
Interphase
G1 phase
A step in carcinogenesis where initiated cells proliferates more cells forming preneoplastic lesion.
Initiation
Neoplasm
Progression
Promotion
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) can cause cervical cancer.
True
False
Lung cancer is the number 1 most common type of cancer in males and females.
True
False
When identified early, cancer is more likely to respond to effective treatment and can result in a greater probability of surviving, less morbidity, and less expensive treatment
True
False
Not yet proven
A concerned neighbor of yours is asking you for recommendations to prevent cancer. As a nursing student, you will educate the following, except:
Maintain a healthy weight and be physically active.
Limit consumption of alcohol and high processed food.
Avoid placing your mobile phones under your pillow before sleeping.
Avoid using and exposure to tobacco.
The oncologist is ruling out prostate cancer to one of your patients and is planning to request for a tumor marker to see if it is elevated.You are knowledgeable that the doctor will order for what tumor marker?
CEA
CA 19-9
PSA
CA 125
A friend of yours told you that she started to feel a lump on her right breast a week ago. Which is the proper response to your friend?
You must see an oncologist right away.
Have you asked your doctor for a ct scan?
I think you should consider having a mammogram.
The lump will eventually go away. Just give it some time.
CT and MRI scans can show tissue abnormalities that are likely tumors and is a definitive diagnostic tool for cancer.
True
False
À cancer screening test where it uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes, and in other physiological activities including blood flow, regional chemical composition and absorption.
Biopsy
Colonoscopy
Positron Emission Tomography Scan
CT scan
Select the Goals of Chemotherapy
Cure
Contain
Palliation
Control
Progression
One of your patients is having oxaliplatin infusion. You as the nurse will be alarmed by which of the following verbalizations of your patient?
It's my 3rd episode of watery stool today.
The infusion hurts as it goes through my vein.
I can't swallow and I can't breathe.
I think I'm having palpitations.
Cancer can be prevented.
True
False
Which of the following is the most common complication of Doxorubicin?
Hepatotoxicity
Bleeding
Irreversible heart damage
Kidney failure
Hair loss is a sign of cancer.
True
False
Not all the time
A radiation therapy that is administered internally is called (a) .
You are educating a patient undergoing radiation therapy. Which of the following is true?
Radiation therapy uses a controlled dose of magnetic waves to kill cancer cells or damage them so they cannot grow, multiply or spread.
Radiation therapy may cause minimal pain and discomfort while ongoing treatment.
It will only affect the areas being treated.
Radioactive implants are all permanent.
Why do you want to be a nurse?
