Prostate Path

Question 1

What are the three zones of the prostate

Answer 1

Peripheral, central, transitional

Question 2

What is the largest zone of the prostate and most associated with prostate cancer?

Answer 2

Peripheral zone

Question 3

BPH occurs in which zone?

Answer 3

Transitional

Question 4

Only the ___ cells become neoplastic

Answer 4

secretory

Question 5

BPH is the most common non-cancerous cause of __

Answer 5

PSA

Question 6

___ men have a higher rate and more aggressive prostate cancer

Answer 6

Black

Question 7

Invasive cancer loses the __ layer of cells

Answer 7

basal

Question 8

A tumor volume of less than __ CC indicates a very low risk of progressoin

Answer 8

0.5

Question 9

Staging
T1a
T1b
T1c
T2a
T2b
T2c
T3a
T3b
T4

Answer 9

5%
Only seen in needle biopsy
50% of one lobe
Both Lobes
Spread to extraprostatic tissue
spread to seminal vesicle
Metastasis

Question 10

Gleason Grading 
1 & 2
3
4 
5

Answer 10

well formed glands
irregular gland infiltration
Cribriform plates
Cell sheets without any gland formation