FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
SURGICAL ONCOLOGY
PAPER III
SURG. ONCO/D/16/47/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. Principles of a Positron Emission Tomography scan.
List the isotopes used.
Current indications for PET-CT in solid tumour.

2. What are the advantages of Robotic Surgery in Oncology?
Trans Oral Robotic Surgery indications, advantages and
limitations.

3. What is "Bone Bank"? Comment on its usefulness in oncology.
Modular prosthesis.
5+5
4. Bladder preservation strategies in muscle invasive urinary
bladder cancer.
Extended pelvic nodal dissection in urinary bladder cancer.
5+5
5. Newer classifications of hysterectomy.
Nerve sparing radical hysterectomy.
5+5
6. Functional anatomy of the liver as relevant to liver resections.
Nomenclature of liver resections.
6+4
7. Accelerated partial breast irradiation Principles and indications.
Hypofractionation in post mastectomy radiotherapy.
5+5
8. Current status of HIPEC (Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal
Chemotherapy) in ovarian cancer.
Complications of HIPEC.
5+5
9. Hormone Receptor Testing in breast cancer.
FISH testing for HER2/neu in breast cancer.
5+5
10. Recent molecular understanding of epithelial ovarian cancers.
Surgery in gestational trophoblastic neoplasm.
5+5