Question Set #1 - Case-Based Questions

Gypsy, a 73-year-old Caucasian woman, had hemoptysis as she sat at the bedside of her dying husband. His decline had been gradual over a decade, first peripheral vascular disease leading to multiple surgeries and finally resulting in chronic renal failure treated by dialysis. Yet, Gypsy knew at that moment, she had lung cancer. After all, she had smoked 1 to 2 packs of cigarettes per day for 50 years, and her father died from lung cancer at age 42. She always knew she would get lung cancer. Still it wasn't easy when she heard the chest x-ray results at the same time her husband was so near to death. It was difficult for her to undergo diagnostic staging scans only four days after he died and biopsy bronchoscopy two days before Christmas, two weeks after her first hemoptysis. Her pulmonologist told her she had poorly differentiated nonsmall cell lung cancer metastatic to the other lung, both kidneys, and possibly the cervical spine. Surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy couldn�t cure her cancer. He promised he would control her symptoms and keep her comfortable. He also suggested that she consider chemotherapy or radiation therapy as a means to control the hemoptysis. 

Question Set #2 - True and False Questions