Neoplasia: Neoplastic Nomenclature

Question 1

What is the neoplastic cell that ends with the suffix -oma?

Answer 1

Benign

Question 2

What is the neoplastic cell that ends with the suffix -sarcoma or -carcinoma?

Answer 2

Malignant

Question 3

What are the classification of benign and malignant cancer?

Answer 3

Carcinoma
Sarcoma
Lymphoma

Leukemia
Blastoma
Borderline Tumor

Mixed Tumor
Teratoma
Hamartoma

Choristoma

Question 4

These are malignant epithelial neoplasms.

Answer 4

Carcinoma

Question 5

These are malignant mesenchymal neoplasms.

Answer 5

Sarcoma

Question 6

Malignant lymphoid neoplasm forming distinct tissue masses.

Answer 6

Lymphoma

Question 7

Maligant hematolymhpoid neoplasm that presents as proliferation of neoplastic cells in the bone marrow and or peripheral blood.

Answer 7

Leukemia

Question 8

Malignant tumor derived from primitive cells, either embyronic and fetal tissues.

Answer 8

Blastoma

Question 9

Tumor with the appearance and behavior intermediate between benign and malignant.

Answer 9

Borderline Tumor

Question 10

Tumor that demonstrated more than one line of differentation.

Answer 10

Mixed Tumor

Question 11

Tumor containing recognizable mature or immature tissues belonging to more than one germ cell layer, usually creating teeth, eyeballs, hair, or torsos.

Answer 11

Teratoma

Question 12

Disorganized mass composed of cells indigenous to the involved tissue.

Answer 12

Hamartoma

Question 13

Term applied to a heterotopic, misplaced but organized rest of cells.

Answer 13

Choristoma

Question 14

Most common type of leukemia in childhood?

Answer 14

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)

Question 15

Metastasis is usually evident in what stage of cancer?

Answer 15

Stage 3 or 4

Question 16

These are the characterisitics of a benign tumor.

Answer 16

Affect the young
Expands only
Encapsulated and movable
Rate metastasis
No cachexia
Differentiated
Less mitotic figures
Non-hyperchromatic
Less hemorrhage and necrosis

Question 17

These are the characteristics of a malignant tumor.

Answer 17

Affect the old
Inflitration
Unencapsulated
Lymphatic invasion
Cachexia
Undifferentiated
More mitotic figures
Hyperchromic
More hemmorrhage and necrosis

Question 18

This is a soft and very malignant tumor as there are more cells than connceting tissues.

Answer 18

Medullary Tumor

Question 19

This is stony and hard tumor because there is more cells in more conncetive fibrous tissues.

Answer 19

Schirrhous Tumor