Cancer treatment

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Aromatic

Health care; Cancer treatment

Having an odor, which often is pleasant or spicy.

A drug used to treat multiple myeloma. It is also used to treat mantle cell lymphoma in patients who have already received at least one other type of treatment and is being studied in the treatment ...

Aromatase inhibitor

Health care; Cancer treatment

A drug that prevents the formation of estradiol, a female hormone, by interfering with an aromatase enzyme. Aromatase inhibitors are used as a type of hormone therapy for postmenopausal women who ...

Bone-seeking radioisotope

Health care; Cancer treatment

A radioactive substance that is given through a vein, and collects in bone cells and in tumour cells that have spread to the bone. It kills cancer cells by giving off low-level radiation.

Accelerated-fraction radiation therapy

Health care; Cancer treatment

Radiation treatment in which the total dose of radiation is divided into small doses and the treatments are given more than once a day. The total dose of radiation is also given over a shorter period ...

Antiangiogenic

Health care; Cancer treatment

Having to do with reducing the growth of new blood vessels.

Bioinformatics

Health care; Cancer treatment

The science of using computers, databases, and math to organise and analyse large amounts of biological, medical, and health information. Information may come from many sources, including patient ...