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Adjuvant Chemotherapy |
Drugs given after primary therapy (surgery or radiation) |
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Adjuvant |
To assit |
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Alkylating agents |
Chemotherapeutic synthetic drugs that cause crosslinks and breaks in DNA to stop cells from dividing |
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Anaplasia |
Loss of differentiation of cells; reversion to a more primitive cell type |
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Antibiotics |
Chemotherapeutic drugs found in bacteria and fungi; cause breaks in DNA strands to inhibit cell division |
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Antimetabolites |
Chemotherapeutic agents that block the synthesis of DNA components and prevent cells from dividing |
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Antimitotics |
Chemotherapeutic chemicals that block the function of a protein necessary for mitosis |
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Apoptosis |
Programmed cell death |
Normal cells undergo apoptosis when damaged or aging but some cancer cells lose the ability |
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Benign tumor |
Noncancerous growth |
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Brachytherapy |
Radiotherapy that uses insertion of sealed containers into body cavities or radioactive seeds directly into the tumor |
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Carcinogens |
Agents that cause cancer |
Examples: chemicals, drugs, radiation, and viruses |
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Carcinoma |
Cancerous cells of epithelial origin |
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Chemotherapy |
Treatment with drugs |
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Combination chemotherapy |
Use of several chemotherapeutic agents together for the treatment of tumors |
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) |
Genetic material within the nucleus of a cell; controls cell division and protein synthesis |
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Differentiation |
Specialization of cells |
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Electron beams |
Low energy beams of radiation for treatment of skin or surface tumors |
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Encapsulated |
Surrounded by a capsule; benign tumors are encapsulated |
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External beam irradiation |
Radiation is applied to a tumor from a source outside the body |
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Fields |
Dimensions of the area of the body undergoing irradiation |
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Fractionation |
Giving radiation in small, repeated doses |
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Genetic screening |
Patients and family members are tested to determine whether they have inherited a cancer-causing gene |
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Grading of tumors |
Evaluating the degree of maturity of tumor cells or degree of diffetentiation |
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Gray (GY) |
Unit of absorbed radiation dose |
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