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Which would form by way of intramembranous ossification?

You are treating a patient with adjuvant chemotherapy for a curable cancer. The patient comes for cycle 3 out of 6 and is fatigued. His treatment schedule is every 21 days. He wishes to take a break from chemotherapy but doesn’t want to compromise his chance of curing the malignancy. What advice should you give him?

?A 30-year-old female comes to your ObGyn clinic to establish prenatal care. She has never seen a physician before so you start with blood work and a Pap smear (normal smear is on the left “A”) which shows on the right (“F”): 

The APC gene:

An 18-year-old boy gets hit during a football game and comes to your ortho clinic complaining of knee pain. Upon imaging, you note a small nodule on the surface of the femur. The biopsy shows a benign cartilage proliferation. Your diagnosis is:

Characteristics of HSIL (high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions) include:

Why are x-rays (photons) used for therapeutic radiation?

Which of these lesions is benign

You are interested in collecting Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) from a cancer patient to track tumor recurrence. What is the most recent (last) step in the process of metastasis (the Invasion-Metastasis cascade) that a cancer cell must have completed in order to be a CTC?

Ms. Nganu is a 56 y/o woman with newly diagnosed breast cancer that is estrogen receptor positive. You are providing informed consent for tamoxifen and she asks you how does tamoxifen work. What is the mechanism of action of tamoxifen?