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In which position do we place lung cancer as a cause of death from cancer in women?
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Which is the most important risk factor in the development of lung cancer?
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The most frequent histologic type of lung cancer is
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The disease is characterized Dy an aggressive tendency to metastasize. It often spreads early to mediastinal lymph nodes and distant sites. Chemoradiotherapy is generally used for treatment, These are all characteristics of which type of lung cancer?
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Which of these statements is true for lung cancer?
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lung cancer rarely metastasizes to the lymph nodes
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the most common histologic type is squamous cell carcinoma
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patients with lung cancer often present with early stage disease because of the specific symptoms
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patients with lung cancer often present with advanced stage disease and symptoms
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none of the above
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Which one of these symptoms is the most common symptom of lung cancer that is frequently overlooked both by patients and physicians?
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hemoptysis
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cough
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stridor
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dyspnea
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chest wall pain
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Which of these symptoms are included in the Pancoast's syndrome?
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harshness of stridor or musical wheezing
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hemoptysis and cough
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facial anhydrosis, miosis, and ptosis
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fullness and swelling in-the face and arms
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distended neck veins and large superficial chest and neck collaterals
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The most unusual and most intriguing symptoms of lung cancer are the result of paraneoplastic processes. Which of these symptoms is not paraneoplastic?
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Lung cancer may cause dyspnea through multiple different mechanisms. Which of the mechanisms cannot cause dyspnea?
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How do we treat patients with lung cancer and malignant pleural effusions?
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Surgical resection lobectomy or pneumonectomy
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We perform only wedge or sublobar resection
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VATS with pleurodesis
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We don’t perform any surgical intervention
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According to the TNM classification malignant pleural effusions are considered as
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Which of the following imaging tests is the most common test that we use in the preoperative staging of patients with suspected lung cancer?
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How do we evaluate the nodal (N) stage in patients with lung cancer?
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What is the standard treatment of patients with stage I and II lung cancer?
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VATS with biopsy
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Wedge resection or segmentectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection
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Lobectomy with systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection/sampling
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Pneumonectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection
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What is the most commonly used treatment of stage IV lung cancer?