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| In cancer, how are suppressor genes inactivated? |
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| Transcription of mic from 8 to 14 occurs in what cancer? |
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| Burkitt's lymphoma. Associated with EBV (increases mitotic rate when it attaches to CD21 and converts B cell to plasma cell). |
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| 14:18 translocation occurs in what cancer? |
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| 15:17 translocation occurs in what cancer? |
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| Acute progranulocytic leukemia (this is the one treated with vitamin A). |
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| Drug predisposing to bladde cancer |
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| cyclophosphamide (treats Wegener's, RA, minimal change, and others) |
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| Virus predisposing to Kaposi's sarcoma |
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| HIV predisposes to what cancer? |
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| What is the most common cancer associated with radiation? |
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| Leukemia, particulary CML. |
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| What's the particle associated with basal cell carcinoma? |
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| What substance increases incidence of squamous cell carcinoma? |
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| Arsenic (also angiocarcinoma of liver). This is bad in Bengladesh. |
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| Retinoblastoma chromosome? |
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| Most common cause of white reflex |
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| What drug predisposes to cataracts? |
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| 40% of all cancers include the finding of... |
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| Most common cause of death in cancer |
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| Most common paraneoplastic syndrome |
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| Explosive onset of pruritic seborrheic keratoses. |
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| Leser-Trelat sign; a paraneoplastic syndrome |
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| Gottron's Papules (paraneoplastic) |
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| Hyponatremia, Cushings: what cancer? |
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| Hypercalcemia + secondary polycythemia: what cancer? |
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| Renal cell adenocarcinoma |
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| Hypoglycemia or secondary polycythemia |
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| Hypercalcemia or Cushings: what tumor? |
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| medullary carcinoma of thyroid. marker can become amyloid. |
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| Markers of testicular cancer |
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| AFP, hCG. AFP with yolk sac tumor(also hepatocellular carcinoma). |
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| Bence-Jones protein; multiple myeloma. |
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| Marker for ovarian cancer |
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