Cancer and Oncology Terms

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

An anticancer drug that is also used in cancer prevention.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of certain solid tumors, lymphoma, and myeloma.

Soft tissue sarcoma is a rare cancer arising in muscle, fat, or connective tissue rather than in bone or organs.

A sun-damage lesion easier to feel than to see, and the visible tip of a much wider field of altered skin.

An abnormal mass of tissue that usually does not contain cysts or liquid areas.

Sorafenib works through two separate mechanisms, directly slowing cancer cell growth while also limiting the blood supply a tumor depends on.

A drug used to treat advanced kidney cancer and a type of liver cancer that cannot be removed by surgery.

Timing matters more than the size of the squeeze, since what a person can still do when treatment starts largely predicts what remains.

A type of cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs and that contains long spindle-shaped cells.

A description of shape rather than a single disease, since many unrelated cancers look this way and shape alone cannot separate them.

Spine cancer describes tumors of the vertebrae or spinal cord, though cancer reaching the spine from elsewhere is far more common than a primary tumor.

Sprycel is the brand name for dasatinib, a targeted drug used to treat certain leukemias driven by an abnormal fusion protein.

One name across many organs, united by the flat lining cell the cancer starts from rather than by where it is found.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

Three letters for an antimony compound whose established job is a parasitic infection, not the cancer research the abbreviation is usually filed under.

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