ONCOLOGIC

DIFINITIONS

CARCINOGEN

CHEMOTHERAPY

> any cancer producing substance or organisms, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or agents such as certain types of irradiation.

>treatment of disease by means of chemical substance or drugs, usually used in reference to neoplastic disease.

METASTASIS

The shifting of a disease or its local manifestation from one part of the body to an other, as in mumps when the symptoms referable to the parotid gland subside and the testes becomes affected.
Radiotherapy in which the source of irradiation is placed close to the surface of the body or implanted to the tissues to be treated. Treatment targets specific tissues without harm to the surrounding normal tissue.

BRACHYTHERAPY

PHOTODYN AMIC TERAPY PEUDS ORANGE

PAGET DISEASE

A surgical laser assisted procedure to correct wet muscular degeneration, excitable dye is injected into the venous system and a laser is used to treat those ocular areas that are found to be leaking A swollen pitted skin surface overlying carcinoma of the breast in which there is both stromal infiltration and lymphatic obstruction with edema. A generalized skeletal disease, frequently familial in which bone resorption and formation are both increase. Leading to thickening and softening of bones and bending of weight bearing bones.

SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME CYTOLOGY

Obstruction of the superior vena cava or its main tributaries by benign or malignant lesions, causing edema and engorgement of the vessels of the face, neck and arms nonproductive cough, dyspnea, bluish looking venous stars may be found in early phase

the study of the anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and chemistry of the cell

MITOSIS

The usual process of somatic reproduction of cells consisting of a sequence of modifications of the nucleus that result in the formation of two daughter cells with exactly the same chromosome and DNA content as that of the original cell.

ONCOLOGY

The study or science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological properties and features of neoplasm, including causation, pathogens, and treatment.

BENIGN

Denoting the mild character of an illness or the nonmalignant character of a neoplasm.

MALIGNANT

Resistant to treatment; occurring in severe form and frequency fatal; tending to become worst. In reference to neoplasm, having the properties of locally invasive and destructive growth and meatastasis.