Across
- 1. scan that uses radioactive tracers to discover cancer cells
- 2. uses the numbers 0-4 to give a person's cancer a level of severity, 4 being the worst
- 6. doctor who specializes in cancer
- 9. cancer causing agent
- 11. form of treatment that uses high doses of energy to shrink or kill cells
- 12. system of the body that acts as a garbage collector picking up toxins and waste
- 14. doctor who works in a lab and reads tissue samples, etc
- 15. sample of tissue to be sent to the lab
- 16. what disease or disorder a person has
Down
- 1. doctor who works with children
- 3. mass of cells that is NOT cancerous
- 4. the outlook of a patient
- 5. mass of cells that IS cancerous
- 7. ____ physician is a doctor who works with adults with no specialty
- 8. mass of cells
- 9. form of treatment that uses a combination of very strong drugs to stop cancer cells from growing
- 10. when cancer travels from one area in the body to another
- 13. scan specifically made for breast tissue