CANCER REGISTRATION COURSE: QUIZ 10

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* 1. When coding multiple morphology terms and no single code includes all the diagnostic terms described in the final diagnosis, what code is a cancer registrar supposed to assign?

Code both terms and assign the lowest code

Code both terms and assign the higher code

Code unspecified morphology

No code is assigned

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* 2. Biopsy report of a 78-year old male with swelling of prostatic gland shows adenocarcinoma of prostate. The patient further has skin lesions indicative of kaposi sarcoma.

What is your conclusion of this case before abstracting?

Metastatic prostate cancer

Metastatic skin cancer

Multiple primary

Overlapping lesion

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* 3. Adenocarcinoma of prostate

C61.9, M8140/39

C61.1, M8140/33

C61.9, M8140/32

C61.2, M8140/31

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* 4. Papillary poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix.

C53.0, M8072/33

C53.9, M8052/33

C53.9, M8070/33

C53.0, M8070/39

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* 5. Hepatocellular carcinoma

C20.0, M8070/39

C21.0, M8071/39

C22.0, M8170/39

C22.0, M8170/33