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clinical practice guidelines
Health care; Cancer treatment
Guidelines developed to help health care professionals and patients make decisions about screening, prevention, or treatment of a specific health condition.
denosumab
Health care; Cancer treatment
A type of monoclonal antibody being studied in the treatment of multiple myeloma (a cancer that forms in bones) and in the prevention and treatment of bone metastases (cancer that has spread to bone ...
endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration
Health care; Cancer treatment
A procedure to take a sample of tissue for examination under a microscope. An endoscope with an ultrasound probe and a biopsy needle at the end is inserted through the mouth into the esophagus. An ...
free radical
Health care; Cancer treatment
A highly reactive chemical that often contains oxygen and is produced when molecules are split to give products that have unpaired electrons (a process called oxidation). Free radicals can damage ...
hepatitis delta virus
Health care; Cancer treatment
A type of hepatitis virus that may be present in the body at the same time as the hepatitis B virus. It makes the hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) caused by hepatitis B much worse. The hepatitis ...
intercalator
Health care; Cancer treatment
In biochemistry, a type of molecule that binds to DNA and inserts itself into the DNA structure. Some intercalators are used as treatments for cancer.
light microscope
Health care; Cancer treatment
A microscope (device to magnify small objects) in which objects are lit directly by white light.
