NCLEX-RN

NCLEX-RN Review Study Guide

5.2 Hematological and Oncological Disorders 1. Which screenings should be taught to adolescent girls regarding cancer? ____________________________ 2. Which screenings should be taught to adolescent boys regarding cancer? ____________________________ 3. How often should a female over 40 have a mammogram? ____________________________ 4. If colon polyps are not removed, they may become cancerous. How are they found and removed? ____________________________ 5. If a patient has cancer of the lung that has spread to lymph nodes and the liver, what stage would this cancer be? ____________________________ 6. ____________________________is the best medicine for cancer. 7. Which STD has been known to cause cervical cancer? ____________________________ 8. The only true way to diagnose cancer is through ____________________________. 9. Cancers are usually treated by one or more of the following: chemotherapy, ____________________________, and ____________________________. 10. If a patient is on neutropenic precautions due to being on chemotherapy, what is the concern? ____________________________ 11. True or false, a painful lump in the testicles is likely to be cancer. ____________________________ 12. Removal of all or most of the organs in the pelvis due to extensive cancer is known as pelvic ____________________________. 13. True or false, conization allows a female to maintain reproductive ability. ____________________________ 14. What is the common surgery for pancreatic cancer known as? ____________________________ procedure 15. What stage is carcinoma in situ? ____________________________ 16. Radiation causes ____________________________ hair loss. 17. Patients who have implanted radiation seeds need to be in ____________________________for a short period of time so they do not emit radiation to those around them. 18. Hematological cancers involving leukocytes, are called ____________________________. 19. Dragging or pulling sensations in the groin can be a sign of ____________________________ cancer. 20. Multiple myeloma is a cancer within the ____________________________. 21. The most common site of malignant breast tumors is the upper outer quadrant of the breast or the ____________________________.

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