Cancer and Oncology Terms

One plasma cell clone takes over the marrow and floods the blood with a single useless antibody, damaging bone and kidneys as it grows.

A type of cancer that begins in plasma cells (white blood cells that produce antibodies).

An abnormal type of white blood cell that is found in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

These conditions are grouped by overproduction of blood cells, setting them apart from disorders in which the marrow instead fails to produce enough.

A substance being studied in the prevention of skin cancer.

A substance that is being studied as an anticancer drug in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.

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

A substance that is used in cancer research to cause bladder tumors in laboratory animals.

A drug used to treat breast cancer that has spread or that has come back within 6 months after chemotherapy.

Nasopharyngeal cancer arises in the upper throat behind the nose and is strongly linked to Epstein-Barr virus infection.

Natural killer cells are innate immune cells that destroy virus infected and abnormal cells without needing prior exposure to a specific target.

A substance that is being studied for its ability to make cancer cells respond to drugs to which they have become resistant.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

This abbreviation identifies the primary United States federal agency responsible for conducting and funding cancer research, training, and public health information.

A substance being studied in the prevention of colorectal cancer.

A lymph node in the armpit that is free of cancer.

Treatment moved to the front of the queue, shrinking a tumor before surgery and revealing in advance how it answers back.

A neoplasm is an abnormal tissue growth from uncontrolled cell division, encompassing both benign growths and malignant cancers rather than cancer alone.

A serious problem that may occur in cancer in which cancer cells spread from the original (primary) tumor to the meninges (thin layers of tissue that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord).

Neuroblastoma is a cancer of immature nerve cells that develops mainly in infants and young children, often starting near the adrenal gland.