Reproductive, Pregnancy and Breast Health Terms

A fibroadenoma is a common, benign breast tumor made of fibrous and glandular tissue, most frequent in younger women.

Lumpiness, tenderness and cysts that shift with the monthly cycle, common enough to be considered a normal variation.

The older name for ordinary cyclical breast lumpiness, kept in many records although the word disease is now considered inaccurate.

A benign smooth-muscle tumor, usually in the uterus or gastrointestinal tract.

The use of x-rays to create a picture of the breast on a film.

The foreskin is a fold of skin that covers and protects the glans, or head, of the penis.

The amount of the protein prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the blood that is not attached to other proteins.

A chemotherapy combination used to treat malignant mesothelioma, advanced non-small cell lung cancer, advanced bladder cancer, advanced cervical cancer, pancreatic cancer, and epithelial ovarian…

A chemotherapy combination used to treat malignant mesothelioma, advanced non-small cell lung cancer, advanced bladder cancer, advanced cervical cancer, pancreatic cancer, and epithelial ovarian…

Two jobs that have little in common are grouped as one system because the organs doing them grow from the same embryonic tissue.

A reproductive cell of the body.

A gene change in a body's reproductive cell (egg or sperm) that becomes incorporated into the DNA of every cell in the body of the offspring.

Gestational trophoblastic disease is a group of rare tumors that develop from placental tissue after conception, ranging from benign to cancerous.

Any of a group of tumors that develops from trophoblastic cells (cells that help an embryo attach to the uterus and help form the placenta) after fertilization of an egg by a sperm.

A drug used to treat symptoms of an enlarged prostate gland.

The rounded, gland-like head of the penis.

Two numbers added together, one for the commonest growth pattern and one for the next, describing how far prostate cancer has strayed from normal.

The part of the reproductive system that produces and releases eggs (ovary) or sperm (testicle/testis).

A vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer caused by human papillomaviruses (HPV) types 16 and 18.

A drug used with another anticancer drug to treat breast cancer that is HER2 positive and has advanced or metastasized (spread to other parts of the body) after treatment with other drugs.