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A type of bean grown in warm climates, usually for its seed and for bean sprouts. Mung bean may have anticancer effects. … [Read more...]

Adaptation of tumor cells to anticancer drugs in ways that make the drugs less effective. … [Read more...]

The highest dose of a drug or treatment that does not cause unacceptable side effects. The MTD is determined in clinical trials by testing increasing doses on … [Read more...]

A disease or the incidence of disease within a population. Morbidity also refers to adverse effects caused by a treatment. … [Read more...]

A type of treatment in which body tissue is exposed to high temperatures to damage and kill cancer cells or to make cancer cells more sensitive to the effects … [Read more...]

A type of treatment in which body tissue is exposed to high temperatures to damage and kill cancer cells or to make cancer cells more sensitive to the effects … [Read more...]

A drug used to relieve certain side effects caused by treatment with opiods (pain killers similar to morphine), such as constipation (hard, dry stools), … [Read more...]

A drug used to block estrogen and suppress the effects of estrogen and androgens. It is used to treat breast and endometrial cancer, and is being studied in the … [Read more...]

The time from either diagnosis or treatment at which half of the patients with a given disease are found to be, or expected to be, still alive. In a clinical … [Read more...]

The highest dose of a drug or treatment that does not cause unacceptable side effects. The maximum tolerated dose is determined in clinical trials by testing … [Read more...]