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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
A health professional trained to care for people who are ill or disabled.
Industry:Health care
A group of symptoms that may develop when substances released by some cancer cells disrupt the normal function of surrounding cells and tissue.
Industry:Health care
A large carbohydrate molecule. It contains many small sugar molecules that are joined chemically. Also called glycan.
Industry:Health care
A doctor who can surgically reshape or rebuild (reconstruct) a part of the body, such as a woman's breast after surgery for breast cancer.
Industry:Health care
The larger of two bones between the knee and ankle. Also called tibia.
Industry:Health care
Having to do with individuals or tissues that have identical genes. For example, identical twins and cells and tissues from them are syngeneic.
Industry:Health care
A drug that is used to treat advanced prostate cancer, and is being studied in the treatment of breast cancer. It belongs to the family of hormonal drugs called gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs. Also called Trelstar.
Industry:Health care
A condition in which cancer is spread widely throughout the body, or, in some cases, to a relatively large region of the body. Also called carcinosis.
Industry:Health care
A type of kidney tumor that is usually found before birth by ultrasound or within the first 3 months of life. It contains fibroblastic cells (connective tissue cells), and may spread to the other kidney or to nearby tissue. Congenital mesoblastic nephroma is more common in males.
Industry:Health care
Inflammation of one or more pouches or sacs that bulge out from the wall of a hollow organ, such as the colon. Symptoms include muscle spasms and cramps in the abdomen.
Industry:Health care
