Disease Conditions Associated With Neoplasms

Question 1

Neoplasm associated with Down syndrome

Answer 1

ALL, AML

Question 2

Neoplasm associated with xeroderma pigmentosum, albinism

Answer 2

Melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and especially squamous cell carcinomas of the skin

Question 3

Neoplasm associated with chronic atrophic gastritis, pernicious anemia, postsurgical gastric remnants

Answer 3

Gastric adenocarcinoma

Question 4

Neoplasm associated with tuberous sclerosis (facial angiofibroma, seizures, mental retardation)

Answer 4

Giant cell astrocytoma, renal angiomyolipoma, and cardiac rhabdomyoma

Question 5

Neoplasm associated with actinic keratosis

Answer 5

Squamous cell carcinoma of skin

Question 6

Neoplasm associated with Barrett’s esophagus (chronic GI reflux)

Answer 6

Esophageal adenocarcinoma

Question 7

Neoplasm associated with Plummer-Vinson syndrome (decreased iron)

Answer 7

Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus

Question 8

Neoplasm associated with cirrhosis (alcoholic, hepatitis B or C)

Answer 8

Hepatocellular carcinoma

Question 9

Neoplasm associated with ulcerative colitis

Answer 9

Colonic adenocarcinoma

Question 10

Neoplasm associated with Paget’s disease of bone

Answer 10

Secondary osteosarcoma and fibrosarcoma

Question 11

Neoplasm associated with immunodeficiency states

Answer 11

Malignant lymphomas

Question 12

Neoplasm associated with AIDS

Answer 12

Aggressive malignant lymphomas (non-Hodgkins’s) and Kaposi’s sarcoma

Question 13

Neoplasm associated with autoimmune diseases (e.g. Hashimoto’s, thyroiditis, myasthenia gravis)

Answer 13

Lymphoma

Question 14

Neoplasm associated with acanthosis nigricans (hyperpigmentation and epidermal thickening)

Answer 14

Visceral malignancy (stomach, lung, uterus)

Question 15

Neoplasm associated with dysplastic nevus

Answer 15

Malignant melanoma

Question 16

Neoplasm associated with radiation exposure

Answer 16

Leukemia, sarcoma, papillary thyroid cancer, and breast cancer