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Staging Sources: Unit Review and Quiz
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Unit Review
Here is what we have learned from this unit:
- Many sources in the health information record must be
examined to determine the extent of disease and these sources
are part of the diagnostic workup for the disease.
- For most cancers, the report of the physical examination
should include the location of tumor, including site and
sub site, direct extension of the tumor to other organs
or structures, and palpability and mobility of accessible
lymph nodes.
- X-rays, scans, and endoscopic procedures are useful for
staging purposes and they can help determine the resectability
of the tumor.
- Cytologic tumor markers are tumor-specific substances
in the blood serum or other tissues that can assist in determining
the presence or absence of cancer; and they can help determine
the initial tumor burden in both the primary site and distant
sites.
- Pathologic exams are microscopic examination of either
tissue or cells, which is the most accurate method of diagnosing
cancer.
- The most important information in a pathology report includes
source of the specimen, primary site, tumor size, histologic
type of cancer, grade of tumor, and the extent of the disease
within the organ of origin and beyond.
- All surgical procedures should be noted in a written operative
report, either as a separate entry or as part of a progress
report.
- Progress notes summarize diagnostic findings and patient
status on a daily basis.
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
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