Oncology Social Work

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Across
  1. 2. specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness. This type of care is focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of the illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
  2. 7. people who receive care or hospital services and return home the same day
  3. 8. Acronym of where the social work team is located (hint: look on the wall by the front door to the office)
  4. 9. The spread of cancer cells from the place where they first formed to another part of the body
  5. 13. hospital patient who, in most cases, stays in the hospital overnight and meets a set of clinical criteria
  6. 14. substances made by the body or in a laboratory to boost the immune system and help the body find and destroy cancer cells
  7. 15. a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-growing cells in your body
Down
  1. 1. discipline that uses carefully targeted and regulated doses of high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells.
  2. 3. an outpatient clinic that is certified to administer infusion therapy
  3. 4. A program that gives special care to people who are near the end of life and have stopped treatment to cure or control their disease
  4. 5. tool used to identify and address the unpleasant experiences that may make it harder to cope with having cancer, its symptoms, or treatment (hint: ideally, we would have every patient screened at first appointment)
  5. 6. a radiation treatment that uses high-energy X-rays can be pointed at a part of the body where a cancer is located and, through a series of interactions inside of the body, they break the DNA inside the cancer cell, rendering it unable to repair or copy itself
  6. 9. Discipline that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer
  7. 10. a cancer arising in the epithelial tissue of the skin or of the lining of the internal organs
  8. 11. a term used to describe cancer. ___ grow in an uncontrolled way and can invade nearby tissues and spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph system
  9. 12. a radiation treatment that uses heavy ion therapy. It essentially kills cancer in the same way—breaking the DNA—but it uses charged particles directly rather than X-rays to kill cancer.