Cancer Related Words

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Across
  1. 2. an artificial limb
  2. 3. a condition in which the body has a low number of red blood cells
  3. 4. a cancer of the lymphatic system, which is part of the body's germ-fighting network
  4. 7. cancer that starts in the skin
  5. 9. just under your rib cage on the right side of your abdomen
  6. 12. groups of abnormal cells that form lumps or growths
  7. 14. take (living tissue or an organ) and implant it in another part of the body or in another body
  8. 16. a physician who specializes in the physical, emotional, and social ealth of children from birth through adolescene
  9. 19. a substance in red blood cells that carries oxygen through the blood to different parts of the body
Down
  1. 1. the use of drugs to destroy cancer cells
  2. 4. cancer of the bone marrow which creates blood cells
  3. 5. another word for cancerous
  4. 6. a type of cancer that forms from immature nerve cells
  5. 8. any change in a gene
  6. 10. an illness that someone has for a long time or one that goes away and keeps coming back
  7. 11. basic building blocks of all living things
  8. 13. marrow a thick, spongy liquid inside the bones
  9. 15. the largest organ of the body
  10. 17. the reappearance of cancer after it has been treated
  11. 18. a cancer that forms in the tissues of the retina