sonogram
Sound bounces back wherever one tissue meets another, so the picture is assembled from echoes rather than from shadows.
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427 matchessorafenib
Sorafenib works through two separate mechanisms, directly slowing cancer cell growth while also limiting the blood supply a tumor depends on.
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A bean whose plant compounds resemble estrogen closely enough to be interesting and loosely enough to behave quite differently.
Read definitionspasm
A spasm is a sudden, involuntary muscle contraction that can affect a single muscle, a group of muscles, or the wall of an organ.
Read definitionspectroscopy
Reading what a substance is made of by seeing which wavelengths it absorbs, emits or bends, since every material has a signature.
Read definitionspindle cell cancer
A type of cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs and that contains long spindle-shaped cells.
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A description of shape rather than a single disease, since many unrelated cancers look this way and shape alone cannot separate them.
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Sprycel is the brand name for dasatinib, a targeted drug used to treat certain leukemias driven by an abnormal fusion protein.
Read definitionsquamous cell
Squamous cells are flat, scale like cells that form the surface layer of skin and the lining of many internal passages.
Read definitionSt. John's wort
A yellow-flowered plant sold as a supplement, best known in medicine for how strongly it interferes with other drugs.
Read definitionstage D prostate cancer
A prostate cancer stage defined by the Jewett staging system.
Read definitionT-regulatory cell
A word-order variant of the same name, describing the cell that decides when an immune response has gone on long enough.
Read definitiontamoxifen citrate
A tablet that blocks estrogen in breast tissue while imitating it elsewhere, which explains both its benefits and its risks.
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Tasigna targets the specific abnormal protein responsible for driving cell growth in a genetically defined form of chronic leukemia.
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Yew-derived chemotherapy that freezes the cell's internal scaffolding solid, which is the opposite of what the other scaffolding drugs do.
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Taxol is the brand name for paclitaxel, a chemotherapy drug that stops cancer cells from dividing by disrupting their internal skeleton.
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A brand of docetaxel, a chemotherapy drug that works by freezing the internal scaffolding a cell needs in order to divide.
Read definitionthoracalgia
Thoracalgia refers to pain in the chest wall or chest region, a symptom that can stem from muscular, skeletal, or internal organ causes.
Read definitiontomography
Tomography is the general technique of producing cross sectional images of the body's interior, applied across several different imaging technologies.
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A chemotherapy drug first found in a Caribbean sea squirt, which jams DNA repair rather than simply breaking the strands.
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