CMT Oncology Chapter 21
Terms
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- Substance, especially a drug, added to a prescription to assist in the action of the main indgredient.
- adjuvant
- Tx of a disease with a substance, especially a drug, that enhances the main ingredient.
- adjuvant therapy
- Change in the structure and orientation of cells characterized by a loss of specialization and reversion to a more primitive form.
- anaplasia
- A class of antineoplastic drugs used to treat cancer; these drugs are most effective against rapidly growing tumors.
- antimetabolite
- Of or pertaining to a substance, procedure, or measure that prevents the proliferation of malignant cells.
- antineoplastic
- Noncancerous and therefore not an immediate threat.
- benign
- Neoplasm characterized by uncontrolled growth of anaplastic cells that tend to invade surrounding tissue and to metastasize to distant body sites.
- cancer
- Malignant neoplasm
- carcinoma
- Premalignant neoplasm that has not invaded the basement membrane but sows cytologic characteristics of cancer.
- carcinoma in situ (CIS)
- use of chemical agents to destroy cancer cells on a selective basis.
- chemotherapy
- Large ncleic acid molecule found principally in the chromosomes of the nucleus of a cell that is the carrier of genetic information.
- deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
- Process in development in which unspecialized cells or tissues are systemically modified and altered to achieve specific and characteristic physical forms, physiologic functions, and chemical properties.
- differentiation
- Enclosed in fibrous or membranous sheaths
- encapsulated
- In radiology, the division of the total does of radiation into small doses administered at intervals in an effort to minimize tussue damage.
- fractionation
- Possessing the ability to invade or penetrate adjacent tissue.
- infiltrative