Cancer and Oncology Terms

A gene therapy product that is being studied in combination with radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A type of therapy in which radiation is aimed at a tumor from many different directions.

Tongue cancer arises from tissue of the tongue and is classified as an oral cavity or throat cancer depending on the part affected.

Treatment with anticancer drugs in a lotion or cream applied to the skin.

A chemotherapy drug that jams the enzyme cells rely on to untangle DNA while they are copying it.

A drug used to treat certain types of ovarian cancer, lung cancer, and cervical cancer.

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

The gain is not the robot but the route: reaching the throat through the mouth avoids splitting the jaw to get there.

A monoclonal antibody that is used in the treatment of certain types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

A chemotherapy drug first found in a Caribbean sea squirt, which jams DNA repair rather than simply breaking the strands.

A rare type of cancer that forms on or just beneath the skin, usually in parts of the body that have been exposed to the sun.

A protein on the surface of certain cells that binds another protein called TRAIL, which may kill some cancer cells.

A protein on the surface of certain cells that binds another protein called TRAIL, which may kill some cancer cells.

A protein on the surface of certain cells that binds another protein called TRAIL, which may kill some cancer cells.

A rare, genetic disorder that is present at birth and has two or more of the following symptoms: Wilms tumor (a type of kidney cancer); little or no iris (the colored part of the eye); defects in…

Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia is a slow growing lymphoma marked by excess antibody production that can thicken the blood and impair circulation.

A type of surgery used to treat pancreatic cancer.

A staging system for prostate cancer that uses ABCD.

Vaccine made from whole tumor cells that have been changed in the laboratory.