FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
JUNE 2017
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
SURGICAL ONCOLOGY
PAPER III
SURGONCO/J/17/47/III
Time 3 hours
Max. Marks 100
Important instructions:
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully 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.
• 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. What is the molecular classification of breast cancer?
List the various risk prediction scores available in breast cancer;
Write in detail about any one.

2. Embryo cryopreservation
Semen cryopreservation
Ovarian transposition

3. Classify the pathological entities in "Cancer of Unknown Primary"
(CUP).
Role of immunohistochemistry in their management.
Treatment of CUP-pelvic nodes.

4. Trans Anal Endoscopic Microsurgery.
Intersphincteric resection.
5+5
5. Mammographic density
DOTATOC scan
5+5
6. PET-MRI (Positron Emission Tomography- Magnetic Resonance
Imaging).
Standard uptake value.
5+5
7. What are all the therapies available against her2 in breast cancer?
Pertuzumab: Mechanism of action clinical uses.
5+5
8. Intraoperative Radiotherapy (IORT).
Prophylactic HIPEC (Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy).
5+5
9. Laser capture microdissection.
Microarray studies.
5+5
10. ALK mutations in lung cancer.
PARP inhibitors.
5+5