Oncology Flashcards
Cachexia
General ill health and malnutrition associated with chronic diseases
Carcinoma in situ
Localized tumor growth
Electrocauterization
Burning tissue to destroy it
Chemotherapy
Treatment using drugs
Cryosurgery
Destruction of tissue using Cold temperatures
Cystic tumor
Tumor forms with large open spaces filled with fluid
Fibrosarcoma
Malignant tumor of fiber producing cells
Follicular
Pertaining to microscopic description of tumor growth in small gland type sacs
Fungating tumor
Mushrooming pattern of growth in which tumor cells pile on one top of another in project from the tissue surface
Medullary tumor
Large, soft, fleshy tumor
Mucositis
Inflammation of mucous membranes
Mutation
Change in genetic material of a cell
Mutagenic
Pertaining to producing mutation
Necrotic
Tumor containing dead cells
Neurofibromatosis
Tumor of fibrous connective tissue surrounding nerve cells
Oncology
Study of tumors
Papillary
Pertaining to tumors that grow in small nipple like or fingerlike pattern
Dysplastic
Pertaining to abnormal growth of cells but not clearly cancerous
Pleomorphic
Pertaining to tumors that contain a variety of cell types
Protocol
Detailed plan for treatment of illness
Polypoid tumor
Tumors grow as projections extending outward from a base
Radiation
Use of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease
Osteosarcoma
Ligament tumor of bone a.k.a. flesh tissue of bone
Scirrhous
Pertaining to hard, densely packed tumors, overgrown with fibrous tissue
Xerostomia
Condition of dry mouth
Retinoblastoma
Tumor of the retina of the eye which is congenital in a hereditary tumor
Neroblastoma
Cancerous tumor of embryonic nervous tissue or a sarcoma composed of neuroblasts and affecting infants and children up to 10 years of age that you were usually arises in the autonomic nervous system
Angiogenesis
Formation of blood vessels
Adenocarcinoma
Cancerous tumor of glandular tissue
Hyperplasia
Condition of increase growth of cells
Neoplasm
New growth of the tumor
Myelosuppression
Stopping or inhibit the growth of bone marrow tissue this means that blood cells normally formed in bone marrow or not produced
Radiotherapy
Are you noising radiation used to treat malignancies
Anaplasia
Reversion of cells to a more embryonic type
Apoptosis
Programmed cell death
Brachytherapy
Implantation of small sealed containers or seeds of radioactive material directly or near tumors
Epidermoid
Resembling up a dermal tissue
Metastasis
The spread of a malignant tumor from its original location to a distant site
Metaplasia
Abnormal transformation of adult differentiated cells to differentiated tissue of another kind
Teletherapy
Radiation therapy using high energy beams from a distant sources such as a linear Excelerator or cyclotron
BX
Biopsy
CA
Cancer
DNA
Deoxyribosenucleic acid
Mets
Metastases
TNM
Tumor, nodes, metastases
Alveolar
Pertaining to tumor growth in small microscopic sax
