Cancer and Oncology Terms

A chemotherapy drug that impersonates a DNA building block, used mainly against slow-growing blood cancers and before transplant.

One of a group of substances used to treat cancer.

Fluphenazine is a first generation antipsychotic medication used mainly to manage schizophrenia and other conditions involving psychosis.

A radioactive substance being studied as an imaging agent in head and neck cancers and other types of cancer.

Focal describes a finding, change, or process confined to one specific location rather than spread throughout an organ or tissue.

A three-drug infusion schedule for advanced bowel cancer, its name assembled from the folinic acid and irinotecan it contains.

FOLFOX is a chemotherapy regimen combining three drugs to treat colorectal cancer, with several dosing variants used in different clinical situations.

A rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system) with large cells that look cleaved (split) or non-cleaved under the microscope.

Slow growth cuts both ways: the disease is usually widespread when found, yet often watched rather than treated at once.

An indolent (slow-growing) type of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system) in which there are both small and large cancer cells.

Cancer that forms in follicular cells in the thyroid.

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of leukemia and lymphoma.

A drug used together with other drugs to prevent and control nausea and vomiting caused by cancer treatment.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with other types of therapy to treat colorectal cancer.

A procedure to destroy tissue (such as a tumor) using an electric current.

A tumor that is found in endocrine tissue and makes hormones (chemicals that travel in the bloodstream and control the actions of other cells or organs).

A substance that is being studied in the treatment of cancer.

Because early gallbladder cancer rarely causes noticeable symptoms, it is often identified only after the disease has already reached an advanced stage.