Question | Answer |
A substance, especially a drug, added to a prescription to assist in the action of the main ingredient | adjuvant |
Treatment of a disease with a substance, especially a drug, that enhances the main ingredient | adjuvant therapy |
A change in the structure and orientation of cells characterized by a loss of specialization and reversion to a more primitive form | antimetabolite |
Of or pertaining to a substance or measure that prevents the proliferation of malignant cells | Antineoplastic |
Non cancerous and therefore not an immediate threat, even though treatment eventually may be required for health or cosmetic reasons | benign |
A neoplasm characterized by the uncontrolled growth of anaplastic cells that tend to invade surrounding tissue | cancer |
A substance or agent that causes the development or increases the incidence of cancer | carcinogen |
A malignant neoplasm | carcinoma |
A premalignant neoplasm that has not invaded the basement membrane but shows cytologic characteristics of cancer | carcinoma in situ |
the use of chamical agents to destroy cancer cells on a selective basis | chemotherapy |
a large nucleic acid molecule found principally in the chromosomes of the nucleus of a cell that is the carrier of genetic information | deocyribonulceic acid |
a process in development in which unspecialized cells or tissues are sytemically modified and altered to achieve specific and characteristic physical forms. | differentiation |
enclosed in fibrous or membranous sheaths | encapsulated |
In radiology, the division of the total dose of radiation into small doses administered at intervals in an effort to minimize tissue damage. | fractionation |
possessing the ability to invade or penetrate adjacent tissue | infiltrative |
characterized by a tendency to spread, infiltrate, and intrude | invasive |
high-energy x-rays that posses the ability to kill cells or retard their growth | ionizing radiaiton |
an apparatus for accelerating charged subatomic particles used in radiotherapy. | linear accelerator |
surgical removal of only the tumor and the immediate adjacent breast tissue | lumpectomy |
tanding to become worse and cause death | malignant |
the process by which tumor cells spread to distant parts of the body | metastasis |
a type of cell dicision that results in the fomation of 2 genetically idetical daughter cells | mitosis |
a growth of more than one kind of neoplastic tissue | mixed-tissue tumor |
a method of applicaiton | modality |
an illness or an abnormal condition or quality | morbidity |
a chande or transformation | mutation |
any abnormal growth of new tissue | neoplasm |