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Your next patient is a 62 year old ex-smoker who has been referred to you for symptomatic squamous cell lung cancer. He has lost some weight, has some bony pain from his metastatic disease, and coughs frequently, but without hemoptysis. He also has dyspnea on exertion from his modest pleural effusion, though that is better after the pulmonologist performed a therapeutic and diagnostic thoracentesis. In addition to cytologic stains for diagnosis, the pathologist tells you that 85% of his cells express PD-L1. The patient doesn’t want chemotherapy, but he might consider it if he has to. What might be a good option for him?

A cancer researcher has isolated a new gene that may be involved in the growth and differentiation of muscle cells. Moreover, the researcher has demonstrated mutations of this gene in the tumor cells from childhood rhabdomyosarcomas. Subsequent experimental studies were performed. Which of the following constitutes the best evidence that the newly isolated gene functions as a tumor suppressor gene?

Which of the following best describes a type of clinical trials called basket studies?

This patient likely has: 

The immediate post-World War I environment in America was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

Which one of the following points would allow every nation to govern itself?

Which one of the following men was Wilson’s most formidable opponent in getting the Treaty ratified?

The person responsible for the “Wisconsin Idea” was

The Food Administration:

Left tympanostomy with insertion of a ventilating tube, under local anesthesia. Report code _____.