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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
The use of drugs to create openings between cells in the blood-brain barrier. The blood-brain barrier is a protective network of blood vessels and tissue that protects the brain from harmful substances, but can also prevent anticancer drugs from reaching the brain. Once the barrier is opened, anticancer drugs may be infused into an artery that goes to the brain, in order to treat brain tumors.
Industry:Health care
An aggressive (fast-growing) type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that is usually of the T-cell type. The cancer cells express a marker called CD30 or Ki-1 on the surface, and may appear in the lymph nodes, skin, bones, soft tissues, lungs, or liver. Also called ALCL.
Industry:Health care
A licenced pharmacist with special training in how to design, give, monitor, and change chemotherapy for cancer patients. Also called oncology pharmacy specialist.
Industry:Health care
A rare, aggressive type of thyroid cancer in which the malignant (cancer) cells look very different from normal thyroid cells.
Industry:Health care
A protein involved in autophagy (the process by which a cell destroys proteins and other substances in its cytoplasm). Beclin 1 is found at lower levels in several types of cancer cells than in normal cells. It is a type of tumour suppressor.
Industry:Health care
A procedure to connect healthy sections of tubular structures in the body after the diseased portion has been surgically removed.
Industry:Health care
A drug being studied in the treatment of graft-versus-host disease. It belongs to a family of drugs called corticosteroids.
Industry:Health care
An anticancer drug that is used to decrease oestrogen production and suppress the growth of tumours that need oestrogen to grow. It is a type of nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor.
Industry:Health care
A technique used to help people change the way they react to certain triggers in the environment that cause a negative reaction. In cancer treatment, behaviour modification may be used to help patients who have become nauseous during previous cancer treatments cope with nausea they feel when they enter the therapy room to begin a new round of treatment.
Industry:Health care
Having to do with anatomy (the study of the structure of a plant or animal).
Industry:Health care
