Complementary Terms Not Built From Word Parts

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Apoptosis

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Programmed cell death, mechanism for cell deletion to regulate cell population, or destroy damaged or defective cells.

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Benign

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Not malignant, nonrecurrent, favorable for recovery

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Biological therapy

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Treatment of cancer with biological response modifires (BRM) that work woth the immune system. (Also called biotherapy or immunotherapy)

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Carcinoma in situ

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Cancer in the early stage before invading surrounding tissue

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Chemotherapy (chemo)

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Treatment of cancer with drugs

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Encapsulated

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Enclosed wothin a capsule

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Exacerbation

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Increase in the severity of a disease or its symptoms

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Hospice

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Provides palliative or supportive care for terminally ill patients and their families

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Idiopathic

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Pertaining to disease of unknown origin

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Inflammation

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Localized protective response to injury or tossue destruction characterozed by redness, swelling, heat and pain

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In vitro

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With a glass, observable within a test tube

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In vivo

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Within the living body

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Malignant

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Tending to become progressively worse and to cause death as in cancer

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Morbidity

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State of being diseased or unwell, incidence of illness in a population

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Mortality

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State of being mortal (death)

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Palliative

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Providing relief but not cure

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Radiation therapy

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Treatment of cancer with a radioactive substance, x-ray or radiation

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Remission

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Improvement or absence of signs of disease