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Oncology Flashcards

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Cachexia

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General ill health and malnutrition associated with chronic diseases

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Carcinoma in situ

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Localized tumor growth

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Electrocauterization

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Burning tissue to destroy it

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Chemotherapy

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Treatment using drugs

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Cryosurgery

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Destruction of tissue using Cold temperatures

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Cystic tumor

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Tumor forms with large open spaces filled with fluid

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Fibrosarcoma

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Malignant tumor of fiber producing cells

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Follicular

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Pertaining to microscopic description of tumor growth in small gland type sacs

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Fungating tumor

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Mushrooming pattern of growth in which tumor cells pile on one top of another in project from the tissue surface

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Medullary tumor

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Large, soft, fleshy tumor

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Mucositis

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Inflammation of mucous membranes

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Mutation

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Change in genetic material of a cell

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Mutagenic

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Pertaining to producing mutation

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Necrotic

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Tumor containing dead cells

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Neurofibromatosis

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Tumor of fibrous connective tissue surrounding nerve cells

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Oncology

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Study of tumors

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Papillary

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Pertaining to tumors that grow in small nipple like or fingerlike pattern

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Dysplastic

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Pertaining to abnormal growth of cells but not clearly cancerous

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Pleomorphic

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Pertaining to tumors that contain a variety of cell types

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Protocol

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Detailed plan for treatment of illness

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Polypoid tumor

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Tumors grow as projections extending outward from a base

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Radiation

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Use of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease

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Osteosarcoma

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Ligament tumor of bone a.k.a. flesh tissue of bone

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Scirrhous

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Pertaining to hard, densely packed tumors, overgrown with fibrous tissue

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Xerostomia

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Condition of dry mouth

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Retinoblastoma

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Tumor of the retina of the eye which is congenital in a hereditary tumor

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Neroblastoma

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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

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Angiogenesis

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Formation of blood vessels

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Adenocarcinoma

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Cancerous tumor of glandular tissue

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Hyperplasia

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Condition of increase growth of cells

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Neoplasm

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New growth of the tumor

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Myelosuppression

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Stopping or inhibit the growth of bone marrow tissue this means that blood cells normally formed in bone marrow or not produced

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Radiotherapy

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Are you noising radiation used to treat malignancies

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Anaplasia

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Reversion of cells to a more embryonic type

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Apoptosis

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Programmed cell death

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Brachytherapy

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Implantation of small sealed containers or seeds of radioactive material directly or near tumors

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Epidermoid

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Resembling up a dermal tissue

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Metastasis

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The spread of a malignant tumor from its original location to a distant site

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Metaplasia

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Abnormal transformation of adult differentiated cells to differentiated tissue of another kind

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Teletherapy

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Radiation therapy using high energy beams from a distant sources such as a linear Excelerator or cyclotron

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BX

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Biopsy

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CA

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Cancer

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DNA

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Deoxyribosenucleic acid

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Mets

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Metastases

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TNM

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Tumor, nodes, metastases

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Alveolar

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Pertaining to tumor growth in small microscopic sax

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