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3. Substances in your blood, tissues or other body fluids that can be used to help figure out the appropriate treatment for you
5. Tumors that do not spread or invade other parts of the body.
7. A term used to describe cancer.
9. A mutated form of a gene which is involved in normal cell growth.
10. Cancer that has come back after a period of time during which it could not be detected.
12. Any substance that causes cancer.
15. Treatments that encourage the body's immune system to fight the cancer
16. A prediction of how the illness may progress over time and what the outcome may be

1. Your signs and symptoms of cancer have gone away.
2. The removal or destruction of a body part or tissue, often tumors in oncology.
4. Lymph fluid build-up in tissues that may cause swelling.
5. The removal of cells or tissues for examination by a pathologist.
6. The type of medicine that focuses on cancer.
8. The spread of cancer from the original site to other parts of the body.
11. In medicine, describes a disease or condition that does not respond to treatment.
13. Inflammation of the digestive track that often causes sores in the mouth
14. Appearance of tumor cells under a microscope