Cancer and Oncology Terms

A drug used to treat certain types of non-small cell lung cancer.

Treatment aimed at a single molecule a disease leans on, rather than at every fast-dividing cell in the body.

A drug used to treat skin problems caused by cutaneous T-cell lymphoma that have not gotten better after other treatment.

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

Tasigna targets the specific abnormal protein responsible for driving cell growth in a genetically defined form of chronic leukemia.

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

A drug used with prednisone to treat hormone-resistant prostate cancer that has spread and that had been treated with docetaxel.

Taxol is the brand name for paclitaxel, a chemotherapy drug that stops cancer cells from dividing by disrupting their internal skeleton.

A brand of docetaxel, a chemotherapy drug that works by freezing the internal scaffolding a cell needs in order to divide.

A radiolabeled substance that is used to help identify sites of tumor development.

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

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

The brand name for temozolomide, one of the few chemotherapy drugs that reaches brain tissue in useful amounts.

An anticancer drug that is also used in cancer prevention.

An oral chemotherapy that reaches brain tissue unaided, which is why it anchors treatment of the most aggressive brain tumors.

A drug used to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma (a type of kidney cancer).

A type of germ cell cancer that usually forms in the testes (testicles).

Its tissues are recognizable and in the wrong place, and whether that tissue is fully formed matters less in the testis than in the ovary.

Testicular cancer is a cancer of the testis that most often affects younger and middle-aged men and includes two main tumor types.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.