Nurse Module Three - Assessment Quiz

Indolent lymphoma: current & emerging management.

Thank you for joining us for Nurse Learning Module 3 hosted on 17 September.

We hope you enjoyed the session and will join us again for our upcoming Nurse Learning Modules.

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The first section is a short assessment to ensure we met our objectives of the Nurse Learning Module. We value your feedback and comments to ensure that we can continue to provide relevant and useful lymphoma/CLL education and updates.

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* 1. Full name

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* 2. Email address

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* 3. What is the most common subtype of indolent lymphoma?

Follicular lymphoma

Marginal Zone lymphoma

Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

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* 4. The majority of patients diagnosed with an indolent lymphoma present at:

Stage 1 or 2

Stage 3 or 4

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* 5. Which of these monoclonal antibodies are most commonly used in the treatment of indolent lymphoma (select all that apply)?

Rituximab

Obinutuzumab

Pembrolizumab

Ofatumumab

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* 6. Most patients with follicular lymphoma present with advanced stage disease. True or False?

True

False

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* 7. Which of the following factors may indicate a patient with follicular lymphoma needs to commence treatment?

Presence of B symptoms

Symptomatic splenomegaly

Elevated LDH or Serum B2M levels

Lymphocyte count greater than 5.0 x 10 9/L

Organ compression

All of the above

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* 8. Mantle cell lymphoma is:

A rare subtype of lymphoma accounting for less than 5% of all NHLs

Is more common in men than women

Most patients present with advanced stage disease

Average age at diagnosis is 68

All of the above

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* 9. Mantle cell lymphoma is usually an aggressive lymphoma; however, some cases have an indolent presentation. True or false?

True

False

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* 10. Like low grade lymphomas, most patients with MCL will relapse after their initial first line of therapy. True or False?

True

False

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* 11. A small number of patients that were diagnosed with follicular lymphoma can transform to become which subtype over time?

Burkitt lymphoma

Hodgkin lymphoma

Mantle cell lymphoma

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

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* 12. John is 62 years old and presented to the emergency department with severe right kidney pain. He was diagnosed and treated successfully for kidney stones, however a CT of his abdomen showed lymphadenopathy. Further CT neck – pelvis showed widespread lymphadenopathy abdomen, bilateral inguinal, cervical and axillar lymph nodes. He was otherwise asymptomatic, and blood tests normal. He was referred to the haematology department who ordered a core biopsy from an enlarged cervical node. John was diagnosed with stage 3a follicular lymphoma. On this information, what would be John’s immediate treatment plan for the next 6 months.

Treated soon after diagnosis with chemo-immunotherapy

Watch and wait (active monitoring) until he became symptomatic