Chemotherapy/Oncology Quiz

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Oncology & Chemotherapy Knowledge Quiz

Test your knowledge on chemotherapy and oncology with our engaging quiz! This quiz is designed for anyone interested in understanding cancer treatment strategies, preventative measures, and the latest advancements in personalized medicine.

Whether you're a healthcare professional, a student, or simply curious about cancer therapies, you'll find this quiz informative and enlightening. Here are some key features:

10 multiple-choice questions
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Enhance your understanding of cancer treatment and prevention

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Jamie will receive chemo prior to her mastectomy surgery for breast cancer with the goal of shrinking the tumor so the surgery is less extensive. What type of treatment approach is this?

Adjuvant

Palliation

Chemoprevention

Neoadjuvant

Undergoing routine cancer screenings, such as colonoscopy, is considered which type of cancer prevention strategy?

Primary prevention

Secondary prevention

Chemoprevention

Neoadjuvant prevention

What is the goal of adjuvant chemotherapy?

To palliate symptoms as cure is not possible

To eradicate remaining micro-metastases after primary treatment

To shrink the size of the tumor prior to surgery

The standard of care for call cancers

Which of the following instructions indicates that the nurse understands the proper handling of oral chemotherapy medications?

Caregivers must never handle the medication.

Oral cancer medications are not as strong as IV chemotherapy, so you should not have side effects.

It is okay to break the medication in half if you have trouble swallowing the whole pill.

Do not mix chemotherapy medications with other medications in the pill box. They should always remain separate from other medications.

The four main goals of cancer therapy include:

Prevention, cure, management, and/or relief

Palliation, chemoprevention, cure, and/or contain

Prevention, cure, control, and/or palliation

Prevetion, block, remediate, and/or cure

Targeted drugs work by all of the following mechanisms EXCEPT:

Block or turn off chemical signals that tell the cancer cell to grow and divide

Stop making new blood vessels to feed the cancer cells

Carry toxins to the cancer cells to kill them

Kill normal cells along with the cancer cells

What is precision (personalized) medicine?

Genomic profiling of the patient's tumor to identify genetic mutations that are unique to the tumor

A type of cytotoxic treatment that has the greatest cell kill

The standard of care and first-line treatment for the majority of cancers

When the patient decides on the best treatment option

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