Medical terms beginning with D

It preserves a messenger whose source the disease is steadily destroying, which is why the benefit is real but modest and temporary.

A staple of Chinese herbal formulas taken up in the West as a single remedy, which is not how it was traditionally given.

The person a transplanted organ, transfused blood or donated tissue comes from, whether living or recently deceased.

A type of therapy in which lymphocytes from the blood of a donor are given to a patient who has already received a stem cell transplant from the same donor.

A measured amount of a medicine or therapeutic agent given at one time or over an interval.

A chemotherapy treatment plan in which drugs are given with less time between treatments than in a standard chemotherapy treatment plan.

Refers to the effects of treatment with a drug.

Describes side effects of a drug or other treatment that are serious enough to prevent an increase in dose or level of that treatment.

The strength of a treatment given over a period of time.

A dosimetrist calculates and plans radiation dose distributions for cancer treatment, working alongside radiation oncologists and medical physicists to protect healthy tissue.

Radiation dose is measured and calculated through dosimetry, a process used in treatment planning as well as monitoring occupational and environmental exposure.

A trial design in which neither side knows who received what, so that expectation cannot quietly steer the result.

A procedure in which x-rays of the colon and rectum are taken after a liquid containing barium is put into the rectum.

Not how long one cell takes to divide, but how long a whole population takes to double, which is usually far longer.

Rinsing the vagina with liquid, a practice consistently linked with disruption of the bacteria that keep the organ balanced.

A disorder caused by the presence of an extra chromosome 21 and characterized by intellectual disability and distinguishing physical features.

One receptor sits in two very different places, which is how a single tablet ended up treating both blood pressure and prostate symptoms.

A drug used to treat high blood pressure and urinary problems caused by an enlarged prostate.

A substance being studied in the prevention of recurrent prostate cancer.

A drug that is used to treat many types of cancer and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.