Cancer classification

Question 1

What is the term for a cancer of the epithelium?

Answer 1

Carcinoma

Question 2

What name is given to a benign tumour of the glandular (Columnar) epithelium?

Answer 2

Adenoma

Question 3

What name is given to a malignant tumour of the glandular (Columnar) epithelium?

Answer 3

Adenocarcinoma

Question 4

What name is given to a benign tumour of the squamous epithelium?

Answer 4

Papilloma

Question 5

What name is given to a malignant tumour of the squamous epithelium?

Answer 5

Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC)

Question 6

What name is given to a malignant tumour of the bladder epithelium (Urothelium)?

Answer 6

Transitional/Urothelial Cell Carcinoma

Question 7

What type of epithelium produces keratin?

Answer 7

Squamous epithelium

Question 8

What name is given to a malignant cancer of the connective tissue?

Answer 8

Sarcoma

Question 9

What name is given to a benign tumour of fatty tissue?

Answer 9

Lipoma

Question 9

What name is given to a benign tumour of fatty tissue?

Answer 9

Lipoma

Question 10

What name is given to a malignant tumour of fatty tissue?

Answer 10

Liposarcoma

Question 11

What name is given to a benign tumour of bone tissue?

Answer 11

Osteoma

Question 12

What name is given to a malignant tumour of bone tissue?

Answer 12

Osteosarcoma

Question 13

What are the 3 B’s of common childhood cancers?

Answer 13

Bone
Brain
Blood

Question 14

What name is given to benign tumours of cartilage tissue?

Answer 14

Enchondromas

Question 15

What name is given to a malignant tumour of cartilage tissue?

Answer 15

Chondrosarcoma

Question 16

What name is given to a benign tumour of skeletal muscle?

Answer 16

Rhabdomyoma

Question 17

What name is given to a malignant tumour of the skeletal muscle?

Answer 17

Rhabdomyosarcoma

Question 18

What name is given to a benign tumour of smooth muscle?

Answer 18

Leiomyoma

Question 19

What name is given to a malignant tumour of smooth muscle?

Answer 19

Leiomyosarcoma

Question 20

What name is given to a benign tumour of nerve cells?

Answer 20

Neurofibroma

Question 21

What name is given to a benign tumour of the nerve cell lining of the PNS?

Answer 21

Schwannoma

Question 22

What name is given to a malignant tumour of the nerve cell linings of the CNS?

Answer 22

Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumour (MPNST)

Question 23

What name is given to a tumour caused by a tangle of blood vessels?

Answer 23

Haemangioma

Question 24

Which malignant blood cancer is associated with Human Herpes Virus 8 and AIDS?

Answer 24

Kaposi's sarcoma

Question 25

What name is given to a malignant tumour of the blood vessel linings?

Answer 25

Angiosarcoma

Question 26

What name is given to a freckle?

Answer 26

Ephelis

Question 27

What name is given to a mole?

Answer 27

Naevus

Question 28

What is a malignant tumour of the melanocytes of the skin called?

Answer 28

Melanoma

Question 29

What does cancer staging describe?

Answer 29

How far it has moved

Question 30

What does cancer grading describe?

Answer 30

How bad the individual cells of a cancer look

Question 31

What staging technique is used in cancer staging?

Answer 31

TNM staging

Question 32

What is described by TNM staging?

Answer 32

T - Tumour - Local spread (Size) N - Nodes - Local spread to lymph nodes M - Metastases - Non-local spread to other organs or bloodstream