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Introduction: Unit Review and Quiz
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Unit Review
Here is what we have learned from this unit:
- Staging is a common language developed by medical professionals
to communicate information about a disease to others.
- A short definition for staging is the grouping of cases
into broad categories based on extent of disease.
- Elements to be considered in any staging system are the
primary tumor site, tumor size, multiplicity (number of
tumors), depth of invasion and extension to regional or
distant tissues, involvement of regional lymph nodes, and
distant metastases.
- Purpose of staging includes the following:
- Understanding the extent of disease assists the physician
determining the most appropriate treatment to cure the
disease, decrease the tumor burden, or relieve symptoms.
- Staging is also used to indicate prognosis.
- Staging provides a means of comparing local institutional
experience with national data.
- According to the theory of cancer growth or the natural
history of cancer, cancer originates in a single cell. The
cell continues to divide and grow in the organ of origin,
spreads to adjacent tissues or regional lymph node drainage
areas, and then spreads to distant organs or structures.
Quiz
It's time to see how much you have learned from this unit.
A true-false type of quiz has been created to give you an
opportunity to reinforce what you have learned.
Since the quiz is created as an incentive for learning, rather
than an objective evaluation of learning results, the score
of the quiz will not be recorded. Instead, feedback to your
answer is provided instantaneously. So, you may select another
choice if your first choice is not the correct one.
These quiz questions are grouped into several sets of two
questions each to reduce the size of the content on each page.
When you finish the questions in one set, click the Next button
(a right-pointing arrow icon located in the Title Bar) to
proceed to the next page.
Please click here
to take the quiz.
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