smoldering myeloma
Myeloma already present in the marrow and visible in the blood, but not yet doing the organ damage that defines the disease needing treatment.
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158 matchesAbraxane
Abraxane is a brand name chemotherapy drug that delivers paclitaxel bound to albumin nanoparticles to treat several types of cancer.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of several types of cancer.
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A common skin condition, acne blocks and inflames hair follicles and their attached oil glands, producing pimples, blackheads, and cysts.
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To flip something in the body from standing by to working, whether a cell, an enzyme or a swallowed drug.
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The title carries no single meaning worldwide, since what an acupuncturist may train in, assess or treat is decided locally.
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Immature blood cells fill the marrow, so the illness comes from what is missing rather than from what is present.
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The damage comes less from the tumor itself than from what stops being made once the marrow fills with blasts.
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Adenopathy refers to enlarged lymph nodes, a finding that can result from infection, inflammation, or, less often, a malignant process.
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An antibody that strips lymphocytes out of the blood, used to reset an immune system attacking the nervous system.
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A drug that is used to treat multiple myeloma and ovarian epithelial cancer and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.
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A drug used before autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma or multiple myeloma.
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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…
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AML is a fast progressing blood cancer in which immature white blood cells accumulate in the bone marrow, crowding out normal blood cell production.
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Anaphylactic shock is a severe, rapidly developing allergic reaction that can cause airway swelling, a sharp blood pressure drop, and circulatory collapse.
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Bacteria gain resistance by mutation and by trading genes with one another, which is how a reliable drug stops working.
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Harder to design than an antibiotic, because a fungal cell is built much like a human one and shares most of its machinery.
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Weakened deliberately: an organism bred until it can no longer cause illness but still looks threatening enough to train the body's defenses.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of certain multiple myelomas and other advanced cancers.
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The cell that becomes an antibody factory, and the reason a second meeting with the same germ goes so much better than the first.
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