Devita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer

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CHAPTER 12 CANCER

PREVENTION

DANIEL MORGENSZTERN•VORACHART AUETHAVEKIAT

DIRECTIONS Each of the numbered items below is followed by lettered answers. Select the

ONE lettered answer that is BEST in each case unless instructed otherwise.

QUESTIONS

Question 12.1. Which of the following statements regarding nicotine replacement therapy

(NRT) is TRUE:

A. All commercially available forms of NRT are equally effective treat-

ments of smoking cessation.

B. NRTs do not compromise postsurgical wound healing.

C. A and B

D. None of the above

Question 12.2. What is the estimated prevalence of smokers among US adults?

A. 10%

B. 15%

C. 20%

D. 25%

Question 12.3. Which of the following may be classified as nonsmoker?

A. An 82-year-old man who smoked for 10 years and quit 50 years ago.

B. A 25-year-old woman who never smoked cigarettes.

C. A 38-year-old man who smoked approximately 75 cigarettes in his

lifetime.

D. B and C.

Question 12.4. What is the best measurement for nicotine dependence?

A. Number of cigarettes smoked per day

B. Age of smoking initiation

C. Time from waking up to the first cigarette smoking

D. All the above

Corresponding chapters inCancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology,Ninth Edition: 50 (Preventive Cancer Vac-

cines), 51 (Tobacco Dependence and Its Treatment), 52 (Role of Surgery in Cancer Prevention), 53 (Principles of

Cancer Risk Reduction Intervention), 54 (Retinoids, Carotenoids, and Other Micronutrients in Cancer Prevention),

and 55 (Drugs and Nutritional Extracts for Cancer Risk Reduction (Chemoprevention)).

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