declopramide
A substance that blocks the process cells use to repair DNA.
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157 matchesdiathermy
One word covering two unrelated things: the electrical cutting tool of an operating room and the deep warming used in physiotherapy.
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Distraction most often names a technique that shifts attention away from pain, though the term also describes the surgical separation of bone or joint surfaces.
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Radiation dose is measured and calculated through dosimetry, a process used in treatment planning as well as monitoring occupational and environmental exposure.
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A procedure in which tissue is heated to destroy abnormal cells.
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Energy traveling as waves of electric and magnetic field, from radio at one end of the range to gamma rays at the other.
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EMF refers to the electric and magnetic fields surrounding power lines and electronic devices, whose long term health effects remain an active research question.
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The fact that decides everything is whether a wave carries enough energy to knock electrons out of atoms, making it ionizing.
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A combination of the hormone estradiol (an estrogen) and nitrogen mustard (an anticancer drug).
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Extraosseous findings or tissue occur outside the bone itself, a distinction that matters when a tumor or process could otherwise arise within it.
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A radiolabeled substance being studied as an imaging agent in breast cancer.
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A fluoroscope is the imaging machine that produces continuous, real-time x-ray images, allowing clinicians to observe internal structures as they move.
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A radioactive substance being studied as an imaging agent in head and neck cancers and other types of cancer.
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A procedure to detect areas of the body where cells are dividing rapidly.
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A treatment using gamma rays, a type of high-energy radiation that can be tightly focused on small tumors or other lesions in the head or neck, so very little normal tissue receives radiation.
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Gamma rays are high energy electromagnetic radiation released from atomic nuclei, differing from x-rays mainly in their point of origin.
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One word doing three jobs, in radiology, pathology and research, and the reason a single sample can misrepresent a whole tumor.
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When radioactive material is used to examine the thyroid with a scanner, nodules that collect more radioactive material than the surrounding thyroid tissue are considered "hot." Hot nodules are…
Read definitionIDEC-Y2B8
A radiolabeled monoclonal antibody that is used to treat certain types of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is being studied in the treatment of other types of B-cell tumors.
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Imaging creates pictures of internal body structures using techniques such as x-rays, ultrasound, or magnetic fields, without requiring surgery.
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