Download DNB 2020 June Medical Oncology Paper III Question Paper

FINAL EXAM
NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
JUNE 2020
MEDICAL ONCOLOGY
PAPER-III

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Time: 3 hours
MEDONCO/J/20/17/III
Max. Marks:100
Important Instructions:
Attempt al questions in order.

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Each question carries 10 marks.
Read the question careful y and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
Answer all the parts of a single question together.

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Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
Write short notes on:
1. a) Pathobiology of radiotherapy.
3+4+3

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b) Newer techniques of radiotherapy in CNS tumors.
c) What are radiation sensitizers?
2. a) Epidemiology of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
2+4+4
b) Staging of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

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c) Treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
3. a) Information technology and cancer care.
4+3+3
b) Chemo-informatics.
c) Online predictive tools in oncology practice.

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4. a) What are prognostic and predictive biomarkers in CLL?
3+3+4
b) List the small molecule inhibitors in CLL.
c) Mention special considerations in their usage.
5. a) Neuro-diagnostic imaging in CNS tumors.

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3+3+4
b) Cytogenetic and molecular diagnostics of CNS gliomas.
c) Targeted treatment of CNS gliomas.
6. a) Classification of malignant melanoma.
2+4+4

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b) Treatment of metastatic melanoma.
c) Enumerate complications of immunotherapy.
7. a) Interventional procedures in the evaluation of mediastinal
3+4+3
lymphadenopathy.

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b) Treatment of Stage III inoperable squamous cell ?NSCLC.
c) Paraneoplastic syndromes in lung cancer.
8. a) Combined treatment modalities of a rectal cancer.
4+2+4
b) What are the complications of surgery in rectal cancers?

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c) Risk reduction surgery in gastrointestinal malignancies.
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FINAL EXAM
NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
JUNE 2020
MEDICAL ONCOLOGY
PAPER-III

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9. a) Staging
and
risk
stratification
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gestational
trophoblastic
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neoplasm(GTN).
b) Treatment of GTN.

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c) Role of Gynae-oncologist and surveil ance in GTN.
10. a) Pros and cons of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy in head and neck
4+3+3
squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
b) Indications of preoperative and post-operative RT in HNSCC.

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c) Prevention and management of RT associated xerostomia.
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