Cancer treatment

Cancer treatment

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Aerosolize

Health care; Cancer treatment

In medicine, to turn a liquid drug into a fine mist that can be inhaled.

A group of minerals that take the form of tiny fibers. Asbestos has been used as insulation against heat and fire in buildings. Loose asbestos fibres breathed into the lungs can cause several serious ...

Brain metastasis

Health care; Cancer treatment

Cancer that has spread from the original (primary) tumour to the brain.

Acoustic neurofibromatosis

Health care; Cancer treatment

A genetic condition in which tumours form on the nerves of the inner ear and cause loss of hearing and balance. tumours may also occur in the brain and on nerves in the skull and spinal cord, and may ...

Antiestrogen

Health care; Cancer treatment

A substance that keeps cells from making or using oestrogen (a hormone that plays a role in female sex characteristics, the menstrual cycle, and pregnancy). Antiestrogens may stop some cancer cells ...