ABVE
An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with radiation therapy to treat low-risk childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.
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205 matchesABVE-PC
An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with radiation therapy to treat low-risk childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.
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An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with radiation therapy to treat low-risk childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.
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An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with other types of therapy to treat breast cancer, including breast cancer that has spread or come back.
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An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used to treat breast cancer.
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An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used to treat breast cancer.
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A small molecule made of two carbon, three hydrogen, and one oxygen atoms.
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A lack of hydrochloric acid in the digestive juices in the stomach.
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An acid is a compound that releases hydrogen ions in water, ranging from digestive gastric acid to laboratory and industrial chemicals.
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The process of making or becoming an acid.
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A property rather than a substance, measured on a scale where each single step stands for a tenfold change.
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A drug put on the skin to treat growths caused by sun exposure.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of melanoma, liver cancer, and other types of cancer.
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A drug that is used to treat many types of cancer and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.
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A drug that is used to treat many types of cancer and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.
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A whole family of compounds in chemistry, though outside the laboratory the word means exactly one of them.
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The reactive group that pickles tissue for the microscope, sterilizes instruments, and forms as the toxic middle step of alcohol breakdown.
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An alkali is a water soluble base capable of neutralizing acids, relevant in medicine to blood chemistry, chemical burns, and body pH balance.
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Twenty of them, ordered by instructions copied from DNA, are enough to build every protein in the human body.
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A bitter kernel compound sold as a cancer cure under the name laetrile, whose breakdown in the gut releases cyanide.
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