Across
- 4. Removal of cells or tissue for examination by a pathologist
- 6. Noncancerous
- 7. An abnormal mass of tissue formed when cells grow out of control
- 9. Testing of tissue and/or blood for disease
- 13. Begins quickly, severe and sharp
- 15. care Therapy that focuses on improving patients’ quality of life
- 16. Study of cancer of the blood
- 17. The spread of cancer cells from where they first form to another area
- 18. Cancer that grows in bone or soft tissues of the body
- 19. Professional society for oncology advanced practitioners founded in 2014
- 20. Decrease in or disappearance of signs and symptoms of cancer
- 21. Therapy that is used to damage and kill cancer cells
Down
- 1. Form of cancer that begins in melanocytes
- 2. Type of trial that looks at patients with different cancers, but the same biomarker
- 3. Peer-reviewed journal for oncology advanced practitioners started in 2010
- 5. Type of mutation that occurs in the reproductive cells and is passed on from parents to offspring
- 8. A treatment planning approach that includes expert clinicians from different specialties
- 10. Programmed cell death
- 11. Cancer that starts in blood-forming tissue, such as the bone marrow
- 12. Cancer that begins in the cells of the immune system
- 14. Branch of medicine that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer
