Monday, August 27, 2012

article of this week

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this is a link from the ASCO educational book 2012, hope this will be useful.
thanks for u people who have read and wrote the previous article in your log book, continue the same

Thursday, August 2, 2012

test questions for cancer etiology


TEST ON ETIOLOGY OF CANCER
What are the relevant points you will ask the patient, for the history of tobacco usage? (3marks)
What are the carcinogens in tobacco? (3marks)
What are the cancers directly linked to tobacco usage? (3marks)
What is Li-fraumeni syndrome? (3marks)
What are the cancer susceptibility syndromes associated with gastro intestinal malignancies? (3marks)
What is BRCA1 and BRCA2 ? (3marks)
A note on hereditary breast cancer ? (3marks)
What are AIDS defining malignancy? What are AIDS associated malignancy? (3marks)
What are the cancers caused by Ebstein Barr Virus? (2marks)
What is the mechanism of carcinogenesis of HPV? (3marks)
HPV vaccination? (3marks)
What are the chronic inflammatory conditions associated with malignancy? (3marks)
Cahan’s criteria? (3marks)
Radiation carcinogenesis? (3marks)
What is Xeroderma pigmentosa? (3marks)
Prognostic markers for carcinoma cervix? (3marks)
Prognostic markers for carcinoma lung? (3marks)