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What are the types of benign breast cancers? - Answer-Cysts Fibroadenomas Papillomas What are the types of Pre-malignant breast cancers? - Answer-Ductal Carcinoma in sita (DCIS) Lobular Carcinoma in sita (LCIS) What are the types of Malignant breast cancers? - Answer-Mainly glandular epith...

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Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer
Exam Questions with Correct Answers
What are the types of benign breast cancers? - Answer-Cysts
Fibroadenomas
Papillomas

What are the types of Pre-malignant breast cancers? - Answer-Ductal Carcinoma in sita
(DCIS)
Lobular Carcinoma in sita (LCIS)

What are the types of Malignant breast cancers? - Answer-Mainly glandular epithelium

How does lymphatic spread occur? How can you treat this? - Answer-Spreads via
axillary nodes, supraclavicular nodes and internal mammary glands which can be
treated by treating the nodes

How does it spread so easily? - Answer-Blood born spread through bone, brain, liver
and lungs, hence why it is often metastatic

Explain the clinical presentation of breast cancer: - Answer-Breast mass/lump
Nipple changes (discharge, retraction, shape)
Skin changes
Distortion of normal breast contour
Mammographic abnormalities
Pain from distant metastases
Lymphaedenopathy

What are the risk factors for breast cancer? - Answer-Family history, health and weight
and hormonal factors

How does weight increase risk? - Answer-Excess fatty tissue produces oestrogen which
can effect a hormone sensitive tissue

What conditions of the ovaries increase risk? - Answer-Early first period increases the
chance
Late menopause increases risk too
Having no children
Not breastfeeding your kids
Hormonal manipulation (pill)

When is breast cancer common? - Answer-Women between 25-74

How is breast cancer detected? - Answer-Self examination

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