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About this glossary:
203 definitions in the database
This file generated from glossary.dbf at Fri 4 Jan 2002
About the author:
Hello, my name is Simon Cotterill, I became involved in cancer research in 1989 with roles in statistics and computing, my qualifications are non-medical.
This glossary has been developed largely in my personal time, any mistakes in this guide are entirely my own. Feedback
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How to use this glossary
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- In the left hand window click on the desired word(s) and the definition will appear in the right hand window.
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Acute
Adjuvant-Chemotherapy
Adriamycin
Age-Adjusted-Mortality-Rate
Allogenic-Bone-Marrow-Transplant
Anemia
Antibody
Antigen
Aplastic-Anemia
Aspirate
Autologous-Bone-Marrow-Transplant
Autosome
B-Cells
Barium-Enema
Basal-Cell-Carcinoma
Benign
Biological-Therapy
Biopsy
Blastoma.
Bone-Marrow
Bone-Marrow-Transplant
Brachytherapy
Breast Self-Exam (BSE)
Breast-Cancer
Burkitt's lymphoma
Cachexia
Cancer Statistics
Cancer.
Carcinogenesis
Carcinoma.
Cardiotoxicity
Case-Contro-Study
Cell-Differentiation
Central-Line
Cervical-Cancer
Chemotherapy.
Childhood-Cancer
Chondrosarcoma
Chromosome
Chronic
Clinical-Trial
Colony-Stimulating-Factors
Colorectal-Cancer
Colposcopy
Computed-Tomography (CT-Scan)
Cross-sectional Studies
Cutaneous-T-Cell-lymphoma
Cyst
Cytokines
Cytotoxic
DNA
Demography
Diverticulosis
Dose-Intensity
Doxorubicin
Drug-Resistance
Dysplasia
Echocardiogram
Endoprosthesis
Enteral-Feeding
Enucleation
Epidemiology
Epidermis
Ewing's-Sarcoma
Extraosseous
Fanconi-Anemia
Febrile
Fecal-Occult-Blood-Test
Five-Year-Survival
Flow-Cytometry
Fluorescein-Angiography
Follow-up
Fractions (RT)
Gene
Granulocyte
Haematology
Haemoglobin
Hamartoma
Hemorrhage
Histopathology
Hodgkin's-Disease
Hypercalcemia
Hyperfractionated-Radiotherapy
Hypophosphataemia
Hypoplasia
Immune-System
Immunosuppression
Immunotherapy
In-Situ
In-Vitro
In-Vivo
Incidence
Incidence-Rate
Informed-Consent
Interferon
Interleukin-2
Intravenous
Laparoscopy
Laser-Therapy
Leukaemia
Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Lobe
Lobectomy
Localised
Longitudanal Studies
Lumpectomy
Lymph-Nodes
Lymphatic-System
Lymphedema
Lymphocytes
Lymphoma.
Macrophage
Magnetic-Resonance-Imaging (MRI)
Malignancy
Malignant
Mammogram
Mastectomy
Medulloblastoma
Melanocytes
Melanoma
Merkel cell cancer
Meta-Analysis
Metastasis
Monoclonal-Antibody
Morbidity
Mortality
Multiple-Myeloma
Myelodysplasia
Neoplasm
Nephrotoxicity
Neuroblastoma
Neutropenia
Neutrophil
Non-Hodgkin's-Lymphoma
Oedema
Oncologist
Oncology
Osteogenic Sarcoma
Osteomyelitis
Osteoporosis
Paediatric-Oncology
Paget's-Disease
Palliative-treatment
Pancytopenia
Pap-Test
Parenteral-Feeding
Pathologist
Pathology
Peripheral-Blood
Peripheral-Blood-Stem-Cell-Rescue
Petechiae
Phagocytosis
Phase-I Clinical Trial
Phase-II Clinical Trial
Phase-III Clinical Trial
Photocoagulation
Plasma
Plasma-Cells
Platelets
Polyp
Prognosis
Prostate-Gland
Prostate-Specific-Antigen test
Prosthesis
Pruritus
Pyrexia
Radiation-Enteritis
Radiatiotherapy
Radiology
Radiotherapy-Field
Recessive
Red-Blood-Cell
Reed-Sternberg-Cell
Refractory
Regional
Relapse
Remission
Resection
Rickets
Risk Factors
Sarcoma.
Screening
Sigmoidoscopy
Skin-Cancer
Squamous-Cell-Carcinoma
Stage
Stem-Cell-Transplant
Stem-Cells
Surgery
Surgical-Oncology
T-Cell
Thrombocyte
Thrombocytopenia
Total-Body-Irradiation
Toxicity
Trephine
Tumor
Tumor-Infiltrating-Lymphocytes
Tumour-Marker
Ultrasound
White-Blood-Cell
Wilms' Tumour
X-Ray
First created: 31st August 1996
Last modified: Fri 4 Jan 2002