Continuing Education Questions
1. In examining bone mineral density in premenopausal, hormone receptor positive breast cancer conducted in Vietnam and the Philippines, Love and colleagues found that oophorectomy resulted in significant loss in bone mineral density at which site?
- Lumbar spine
- Femoral neck
- Both a and b
- Neither a nor b
2. The combination of pemetrexed and carboplatin when compared to gemcitabine with cisplatin in the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma resulted in:
- fewer objective antitumor responses.
- better overall survival.
- better overall tolerability.
- None of the above
3. The modified acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) protocol applied to elderly ALL patients, when compared to earlier experience with full-dose, pediatric-based ALL protocols demonstrated improvement in all but which of the following?
- Complete remission rate
- Induction-related mortality
- Overall survival at 5 years
- Disease-free survival at 5 years
4. In the Belgian multicenter trial of gemcitabine plus cetuximab for patients with cholangiocarcinoma, which of the following predicted improved progression-free survival?
- KRAS mutation status
- Treatment-related skin toxicity
- Both a and b
- Neither a nor b
5. Marriage was associated with a stronger effect on overall survival than chemotherapy in which of the following cancers?
- Ovarian
- Liver
- Pancreatic
- Lung
- Colorectal
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