Cancer Medicine

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Medullary

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Large soft flashy tumors

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Necrotic

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Containing dead tissue

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Verrucous

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Resembling a wart like growth

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Alveolar

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Tumor cells form patterns resembling small sacks

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Carcinoma in situ

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Referring to localize tumor cells that have not invaded adjacent structures

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Diffuse

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Spreading evenly throughout the effect of tissue

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Dysplastic

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Containing Abnormal appearing cells that are not clearly cancerous

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Epidermoid

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Resembling squamous epithelium cells. thin. plate like

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Follicular

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Forming small glandular sacs

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Papillary

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Forming small finger like or nipple like projections of cells

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Pleomorphic

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Composed of a variety of types of cells

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Scirrhous

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Densely packed tumors due to dense bands of fibrous tissue

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Simulation

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An imaging study performed before radiation therapy

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Stereotactic radiosurgery

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Single large dose of radiation is delivered under precise three dimensional guidance from multiple angles to destroy vascular abnormality’s and small brain tumors

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Biological response modifiers

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Substance produced by normal cells are either directly block tumor growth. Or stimulator immune system to fight cancer

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Allylating agents

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Synthetic chemicals containing Alkyl groups to interfere with DNA synthesis

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Anaplasia

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Loss of differentiation of cells

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Aptosis

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Programmed cell death

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Antimetabolities

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Chemicals that prevent subdivision by inhibiting of substance is necessary to meet DNA

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Immunotherapy

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Cancer treatment using immune cells and antibodies to kill tumor cells

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Antibodies

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Chemical substance produced by bacteria or primitive plans inhibits the growth of cells in cancer chemotherapy

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Antimitotics

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Drugs that block mitosis cell division

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Adjuvant chemotherapy

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Assisting primary treatment

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Chemotherapy

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Treatment with drugs

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Oncogene

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Region of DNA in tumor cells or in viruses that cause cancer

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Relapse

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Return of symptoms of disease

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Remission

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Partial or complete disappearance of symptoms of disease

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Sarcoma

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Cancerous tumor derive from connective or flesh tissue

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Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

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Drugs are given before primary treatment to reduce the size of the tumor

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Gray (Gy)

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Unit of absorb radiation does

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Irradiation

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Exposure to any form of radiant energy such as light. Heat. or x-rays

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Fractionation

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Giving radiation and small repeated doses

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Mitosis

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Replication of cells. two identical cells from a parent cells

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Metastasize

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Spread of a malignant tumor to a secondary site

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Morbidity

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Condition of being diseased

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External beam radiation

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Radiation applied to a tumor from a distant source

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Modality

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Method of treatment such as surgery chemotherapy or radiation

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Radiation

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Energy carried by a stream of particles

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Nucleotide

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Do you need a DNA compose of sugar phosphate and the base

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Pedonculated

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Possessing a stem or stalk

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Proton surgery

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Subatomic particles produced by a cyclotron deposit and absorb dose of radiation a focus point in the body

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Neoplasm

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New growth tumor

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Protocol

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Detailed plan for treatment

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Radionuclide scabs

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Radioactive substances are injected intravenously and images of organs are obtain

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Exfoliative cytology

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Cells are scraped from a region of suspected disease and examined under a microscope

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Bone marrow or stem cell transplant

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Cells that give rise to blood cells are in a fuse intravenously into a patient

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Immunohistochemistry

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Localizing agents or proteins in tissues using labeled antibodies

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Protein marker test

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CA 125 PSA beta hCG and CEA are detected in the blood or on the surface of tumor cells

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Core needle biopsy

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Insertion of a large bore needle into tissue to remove cells for microscopic examination

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Cytogenic analysis

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Chromosomes of normal or tumor cells are examined for brakes translocations or detections of DNA

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Hormonal agents

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Drugs block hormone receptor on cell so that growth is inhibited

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Alveol

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Small sac

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Cac

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Bad

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Follicul

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Small glandular sacs

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Medull

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Soft inner part

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Muta

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Genetic change

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Necr

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Death

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Onc/o

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Tumor

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Papill

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Nipple like

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Plas

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Formation

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Ple/o

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Many more

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Prot

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First

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Radi

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Rays

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Scirrh

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Hard

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Blastoma

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Immature tumor

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Plasia

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Formation growth

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-suppression

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To stop

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Ana-

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Backward

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Apo

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Off. Away

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Brachy-

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Short

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Epi-

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Upon

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Meta

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Beyond change

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Tele

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Far