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GPC#1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the five predisposing factors? | Age, gender, lifestyle, environment, and heredity; these factors will make them more vulnerable to disease |
| A group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell growth is? | Cancer |
| Which tumor can spread to surrounding tissue? | Malignant tumor |
| Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, and palliative surgery are all treatments for what disease? | Cancer |
| Deficient diet or disease conditions that do not allow the body to break down, absorb, or use food cause what? | Malnutrition |
| What chemical agents or irritants are potentially injurious? | Pollutants, poison, drugs, preservatives, cosmetics, and dyes |
| Signs of disease include | abnormal objective findings |
| what is a decision-making process in which data collected from the medical history, physical examination, and diagnostic tests are analyzed, integrated, and interpreted? | Diagnosis of disease |
| What are the goals of treatment of a disease? | To cure, control symptoms, to be supportive |
| What is gene therapy? | The experimental intervention of adding, repairing, or blocking the expression of a specific gene to treat a disease |
| TNM | assesses the size and extent of the spread of the primary tumor |
| Pain may be classified as what? | Acute, chronic, transient, or intractable |
| Acute pain is treated with what? | Narcotics or opioid-related drugs |
| Chronic pain is treated with what? | Acetaminophen, antiprostanglandins, steroids, antiimflammatory agents |
| Physical therapy, massage, acupuncture, and ancient therapeutic treatment are all what? | Complimentary and alternative methods of pain control |
| Preventative healthcare places emphasis on what? | Strategies for preventing disease and injury |
| Benign tumors | tend to remain capsulated; know malignant tumors as well |
| SIDS, acute respiratory infections, ear problems, and more severe asthma are risk factors for children exposed to what? | Secondhand smoke |
| What is the most widely accepted form of alternative medicine? | Osteopathy |
| Complementary medicine is used together with what? | Conventional medicine |
| What therapy uses essential oils to promote wellness and healing and to relieve stress? | Aromatherapy |
| Which therapy uses vibrations, rhythms, and sound in the well-being of individuals? | Music therapy |
| A disease that has an abrupt onset is what? | Acute |
| A disease that has a slow onset is what? | Chronic |
| Redness, heat, swelling, pain and loss of function accompany which inflammation. | Acute |
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