KROK 1 2019 – Question 85 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 63-year-old man suffers from esophageal carcinoma, presents with metastases into the mediastinal lymph nodes and cancerous cachexia. What pathogenetic stage of neoplastic process is observed in the patient?
- A. Initiation
- B. Promotion
- C. Progression
- D. Transformation
- E. -
Hint
Order the stages of tumour development in time and ask where a tumour that has already spread to regional lymph nodes and caused wasting belongs.
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