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== Chapter 22 == | == Chapter 22 == | ||
== Chapter 23 == | == Chapter 23 == | ||
1. Describe the physiological changes of breast tissue with puberty, menstrual cycle, pregnancy and aging. | |||
2. List and describe three disorders of breast development. | |||
3. Describe the impact and limitations of self breast examination on breast cancer detection and death. | |||
4. Describe the impact and limitations of screening mammography on breast cancer detection and death. | |||
5. List three clinical symptoms of breast cancer and what is the associated rate of breast cancer associated with each. | |||
6. What are the mammographic features which are suspicious for breast cancer? | |||
7. List 6 benign inflammatory conditions which may mimic breast cancer and briefly describe each. | |||
8. Define and give examples of non-proliferative breast changes. | |||
9. What is a lactational adenoma and what is the increased risk of breast cancer associated with it? | |||
10. What is flat epithelial atypia and what is the increased risk of breast cancer associated with it? | |||
11. Categorize proliferative breast diseases and give several examples of each. | |||
12. Define and describe gynecomastia. | |||
13. Compare and contrast ADH and ALH. | |||
14. What is the increased risk of breast cancer with proliferative breast disease (with and without atypia)? | |||
15. What percentage of women with atypical hyperplasia develop breast cancer? | |||
17. What are the three major biological subgroups of breast cancer, describe each and the classic patient. | |||
18. Describe the ethnic variation in breast cancer incidence and type. | |||
19. List and briefly describe 10 risk factors for breast cancer (which increase risk and which decrease risk?). | |||
20. What are the clinical history features that would suggest a hereditary breast cancer? | |||
21. What happens to patients in which a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene is identified? | |||
22. Compare BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancers. | |||
23. List three other tumour suppressor genes that are found in breast cancer, and what is their normal function. | |||
24. What is a driver mutation? | |||
25. List the 6 most common driver mutations in breast cancer. | |||
== Chapter 24 == | == Chapter 24 == | ||
== Chapter 25 == | == Chapter 25 == | ||