Cancer treatment

Cancer treatment

Contributors in Cancer treatment

Cancer treatment

A major artery that carries blood from the heart to the head. There is a carotid artery on each side of the neck, and each one splits into two branches. The interior branch carries blood to the brain ...

continent reservoir

Health care; Cancer treatment

A pouch formed from a piece of small intestine to hold urine after the bladder has been removed.

dose-dense chemotherapy

Health care; Cancer treatment

A chemotherapy treatment plan in which drugs are given with less time between treatments than in a standard chemotherapy treatment plan.

evaluable patients

Health care; Cancer treatment

Patients whose response to a treatment can be measured because enough information has been collected.

genome

Health care; Cancer treatment

The complete genetic material of an organism.

hyperthermic perfusion

Health care; Cancer treatment

A procedure in which a warmed solution containing anticancer drugs is used to bathe, or is passed through the blood vessels of, the tissue or organ containing the tumor.

irradiation

Health care; Cancer treatment

The use of high-energy radiation from x-rays, gamma rays, neutrons, protons, and other sources to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation may come from a machine outside the body ...