| _______, most often through the ____ ______ _____ method, is assessment of individual cells, whereas ______ (through _____) allows examination of tissue architecture? |
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| What group of conditions would be contraindicative for FNA of a lung metastasis? What is a potential risk of this procedure normally? |
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| If after a round of chemotherapy there is no evidence of disease, the patient is said to be in ___ ____ |
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| A 50% decrease in evidence of disease tends to be referred to as _____ _____ |
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| A 25% increase in signs of disease, despite chemo, would be considered as: |
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| Chemotherapy doses are calculated by ____ _______ ________, said to be a more correlated to ______ _____ than body weight? |
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| Although combination therapy is often a fantastic idea in chemotherapy, osteosarcoma would usually be treated with one of the following three drugs at a time. |
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| Although combination therapy is often a fantastic idea for chemotherapy, Chronic lymphocytic leukemia in dogs is often best treated with this single alkylating agent? |
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| Although combination therapy is often a fantastic idea in chemotherapy, transmissible venereal tumours are often treated with this plant alkaloid alone. |
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| In an L-CHOP protocol, name the drugs involved in order of acronym? |
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| What is the 'A' int he COAP protocol? |
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| What are the three drugs in acronym order in the VAC protocol? |
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| What class of chemotherapeutic agents prevents new blood supply from |
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| What are the four indications for chemotherapy? |
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| This class of chemotherapeutic agents acts during the S phase of the cell cycle? |
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| Plant alkaloids are specifically active during _-phase of the cell cycle, and are derived from what two plants? |
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| Which of the following drugs is NOT an anti-metabolite? |
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| Which of the following drugs is NOT an alkylating agent? |
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| Which of the following drugs is NOT an anti-tumour antibiotic? |
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| Which of the following drugs is NOT a plant alkaloid? |
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| This chemotherapeutic agent inhibits protein synthesis by degrading an amino acid, is expensive, and you should rpetreat with diphenhydramine? |
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| All hormonal chemotherapeutic agents are part of what class? What is the most commonly used? |
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| What is most often the rate limiting toxic side effect of chemotherapy? Which one is noticed by owners most often? |
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| This condition, most common in dogs with lymphoma, involves sudden metabolic derangement due to rapid death of neoplastic cells. Some signs are listed as further hint. |
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| Death of intestinal crypt cells together with neutropenia is often a recipe for _____ in chemotherapy patients. |
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| you might use this drug to restore some 'pep' to a dog with doxorubicin-induced colitis? |
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| Doxorubicin and L-asparaginase both occasionally cause this reaction, so we may pretreat with H1 blockers, and treat with dexamethasone and/or fluids? |
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| What effect of chemotherapy is more common in wooly breeds like poodles and terriers? |
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| Which of the following is NOT a contra-indication for cisplatin? |
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| With which chemotherapy drug would you associate rare cardiotoxicity? |
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| Which of the following chemotherapeutic drugs is NOT associated with rare urotoxicity? |
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| Which of the followign drugs would you not associate with hepatotoxicity? |
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| Which chemotherapeutic agent is commonly associated with severe neuro signs in cats, and is hence not used in them, but only rarely causes CNS signs in dogs? |
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| What is the only chemotherapeutic agent associated with pulmonary toxicity, only in cats, hence not used in that species? |
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| There appears to be a mediastinal mass. On ultrasound it is hypoechoic, and there are signs of hypercalcemia. This is likely what? If there were mixed echogenicity and additional p |
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| A lymphoma in a dog is far and away most likely to be of what type? |
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| What is the most likely type of lymphoma to occur in a cat? |
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| What are the other two types of lymphoma which are incredibly rare n dogs but more likely in cats? |
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| Which of the following is not a common paraneoplastic syndrome associated with lymphoma? |
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| The __ gene in B cells and the ___ gene in T cells are most often affected in monoclonal lymphomas |
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| Dogs with extranodal lymphoma most often have _____ shaped lesions on their ____ |
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| _ cell lymphoma is worse than _ cell. |
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| When staging lymphoma, stage __ has multiple LNs on one side of the diaphragm, stage __ has hepato or splenomegaly involved and LNs on both sides of the diaphragm, and tage __ has |
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| A dog has lymphoma. Lymph nodes on both sides of the diaphragm are affected. The dog is sick. There is no sign of any organs or marrow involvement yet. Stage? |
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| Untreated lymphoma has a median survival time of _-_ weeks in both canines and felines? |
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| What type of lymphoma is the best prognosis in dogs? |
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| What type of lymphoma carries the worst prognosis in cats? |
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| True or false: COP protocols often have a longer duration of remission than CHOP? |
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| Which of the following drugs would you not potentially use alone on a budget to treat lymphoma? |
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| MCTs appear most commonly on what area of the dog? Of the cat? |
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| A single mast cell tumour on the skin, which has spread to regional lymph nodes would be stage __ |
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| A very large single mast cell tumour that penetrates deep, or multiple skin tumours with or without regional lymph node would be stage? |
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| What is the name for silver staining nuclear organizing regions used to observe cells in a tumour? |
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| What is the one type of alkylating agent that does not share cross-resistances with the others? |
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| True or false: systemic spread of mast cell tumours has a grave prognosis? |
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| What is the most common primary bone tumour in dogs? |
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| What is the general rule to remember where the aforementioned tumour is likely to show up? |
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| Levels of ____ and ____ status can be prognostic indicators with osteosarcoma? |
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| Where does an osteosarcoma most often metastasize to? |
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| Osteosarcomas on what location are most amenable to limb sparing treatments? |
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| Approximately how much longer are survival times with amputation and chemo as opposed to amputaiton alone with osteosarcoma? |
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| How long would an osteosarcoma patient likely last before euthanasia becomes necessary due to pain? |
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| Whih of the following chemo drugs would you not likely use on osteosarcoma? |
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| If you accidentally end up performing an unplanned excision of a soft tissue sarcoma, what margins and fascial plane are necessary? |
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| What is the term for continuous low dose chemotherapy? |
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| True or false: radiation therapy is cheap, and can be used to cover up mistakes if a surgeon leaves dirty margins. |
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| What, in order, do the 1 2 and 3 in the 1,2,3 rule for post vaccine lumps refer to? (This rule indicate you should biopsy) |
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| If you see immature cells in the bone marrow or blood, what kind of leukemia is it? |
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| What form of Acute Leukemia is more common in dogs? Which is worse for prognosis? |
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| What are two signs that you are likely dealing with lymphoma, not leukemia? |
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| Which is more common, CML or CLL? |
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