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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer. Belinostat blocks enzymes needed for cell division and may kill cancer cells. It also prevents the growth of blood vessels needed for tumours to grow and may make tumour cells more sensitive to other anticancer drugs. It is a type of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, a type of angiogenesis inhibitor, and a type of chemosensitizer. Also called PXD101.
Industry:Health care
A person who specialises in anatomy (the study of the structures of animals or plants).
Industry:Health care
The active ingredient in a substance being studied in the treatment of small cell lung cancer and other types of cancer. It blocks certain enzymes needed for cell division and DNA repair, and it may kill cancer cells. It is a type of camptothecin analogue and a type of topoisomerase inhibitor.
Industry:Health care
A substance being studied in the treatment of small cell lung cancer and other types of cancer. It blocks certain enzymes needed for cell division and DNA repair, and it may kill cancer cells. It is a type of camptothecin analogue and a type of topoisomerase inhibitor.
Industry:Health care
A substance that causes blood stem cells (cells from which other types of cells develop) to change into different types of blood cells and increases the number and actions of these cells in the blood. It is being studied in the treatment of myelodysplasia. Ancestim is a type of recombinant stem cell growth factor. Also called r-metHuSCF, recombinant human methionyl stem cell factor, and Stemgen.
Industry:Health care
A term used to describe the process by which the results of research done in the laboratory are directly used to develop new ways to treat patients.
Industry:Health care
In a clinical trial, a medical test on a patient that is not a part of the original study design.
Industry:Health care
The active ingredient in a drug that is used to treat chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), to treat slow-growing B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that has gotten worse within 6 months of treatment with other anticancer drugs, and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer. Bendamustine may damage the DNA in cancer cells and cause them to die. It is a type of alkylating agent and a type of antimetabolite.
Industry:Health care
A rare type of ovarian tumour in which the tumour cells secrete a male sex hormone. This may cause virilization (the appearance of male physical characteristics in females). Also called arrhenoblastoma and Sertoli-Leydig cell tumour of the ovary.
Industry:Health care
