non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Named for what it is not, this family of lymphocyte cancers spans many separate diseases with very different growth rates and outlooks.
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225 matchesnon-small cell lung cancer
A group of lung cancers that are named for the kinds of cells found in the cancer and how the cells look under a microscope.
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Describes a clinical trial or other experiment in which the researchers know what treatments are being given to each study subject or experimental group.
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A clinical study that includes some, but not all, of the eligible patients identified by the researchers during the study registration period.
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Lymphoma in which the lymph nodes containing cancer are not next to each other, but are on the same side of the diaphragm (the thin muscle below the lungs that helps breathing and separates the…
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A tumor that is found in endocrine tissue but does not make extra hormones.
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Cancer that does not begin in the blood or bone marrow.
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Morinda citrifolia.
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In medicine, it describes a procedure that does not require inserting an instrument through the skin or into a body opening.
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In biology, refers to viruses that do not kill infected cells by disrupting their plasma membranes.
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Not cancerous.
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A disorder of the blood.
Read definitionnonmelanoma carcinoma in situ
Abnormal cells are found in the lower part of the epidermis (the outer layer of the skin).
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The commonest cancers in people with pale skin, grouped together by what they are not rather than by what they are.
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Having to do with skin cancer that forms in the lower part of the epidermis (the outer layer of the skin) or in squamous cells, but not in melanocytes (skin cells that make pigment).
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Cancer that has not spread from the primary site (place where it started) to other places in the body.
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A drug that is not an opioid.
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A medicine that can be bought without a prescription (doctor's order).
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A clinical trial in which the participants are not assigned by chance to different treatment groups.
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A group of testicular cancers that begin in the germ cells (cells that give rise to sperm).
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