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- 3. Tests to see how a person’s cancer will grow and which treatment might work best. It looks at all of a person's genes. Testing is often done on a sample of the tumor (from a biopsy or surgery) if possible, but it might also be done using a sample of blood, saliva, or other body fluids.
- 4. The reduction of cancer risk by eliminating or reducing contact with things known to cause cancer, by changing conditions that contribute to cancer (such as obesity or lack of exercise), or by using medicines that interfere with cancer development. Lifestyle changes, such as quitting smoking, for example, reduces the number of people who will get lung and other cancers.
- 6. Unwanted effects of treatment such as hair loss low blood counts, and fatigue (extreme tiredness) and rashes.
- 7. Genes, proteins, hormones, or other substances that can be tested for to learn important details about a cancer. They may help find cancer, check how you are responding to treatment, or watch to see if a cancer that has come back (recurred).
- 8. A piece of DNA that is passed on from parent to offspring. They have information on inherited traits such as hair color, eye color, and height, as well as susceptibility to certain diseases.
- 13. A build-up of lymph fluid in the tissues just under the skin, causing swelling and discomfort. It most often affects the arms or legs, but can also develop in the face, neck, trunk, abdomen (belly), or genitals. This can occur when the lymph system is damaged by cancer treatment, infections, injury, or other problems.
- 15. Treatment or care process that medical experts accept as the appropriate treatment for a disease at a certain time.
- 16. A test that makes detailed pictures of parts of internal body organs. Includes computed tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and nuclear medicine scans (such as bone scans and liver scans).
- 18. Finding disease at an early stage, when it is easier to treat, before it has grown large or spread. Certain tests are used before a person has any symptoms to try to find cancer early.
- 19. Cancer that develops, grows, or spreads quickly.
- 20. Small bean-shaped collection of immune system tissue, such as lymphocytes, found throughout the body along lymphatic vessels. They remove cell waste, germs, and other harmful substances from lymph. They help fight infections and also have a role in fighting cancer, although cancers can spread through them.
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- 1. In cancer surgery or biopsy, the tissue beyond the visible edge of the tumor or abnormal tissue that is removed along with the tumor or abnormality, in an effort to get all of the cancer.
- 2. A special kind of care for people in the final phase of an incurable illness. It focuses on quality of life for people and their caregivers who are experiencing an advanced, life-limiting illness.
- 5. Cancer that has spread from where it started (the primary site) to other parts of the body. When the cancer has grown outside the body part where it started but has not yet spread to other parts of the body, it is called this. If it has spread to other parts of the body, it is called metastatic cancer.
- 9. Health care focused on improving quality of life by managing the symptoms of a serious illness and side effects of treatment. Can be given at any time during an illness when a person has symptoms that need to be controlled. It helps a patient feel more comfortable but does not cure the disease.
- 10. Being able to walk or walking. Ambulatory care centers treat outpatients, that is, people who are not staying overnight in a hospital. Short procedures or treatments are often done in such centers.
- 11. Cancer treatment using medicines that block or alter hormones to help kill or slow the growth of cancer cells that depend on hormones.
- 12. Anything that increases the chance of getting a disease such as cancer. For example, unprotected exposure to strong sunlight is a risk factor for skin cancer; smoking is a risk factor for lung, mouth, throat, and other cancers. Some, such as smoking and being inactive, can be controlled. Others, like a person’s age and gene mutations they were born with, can’t be changed.
- 14. Spreading or growing disease, with or without treatment.
- 17. An area of body tissue that has been damaged by injury or disease, such as cancer.