Download Cancer Terms: Adjuvant chemotherapy

Cancer
Terms:
Adjuvant chemotherapy- chemotherapy given in addition to surgical therapy
Anti‐emetic-Helps with limiting vomiting and nausea
Barrett’s esophagus-Lining of esophagus is damaged by stomach acid
Brachytherapy-Internal radiotherapy (therapy is placed inside or next to
treatment area
CD4 cell-Glycoprotein on surface of T helper cells
Combination chemotherapy-Chemo using more than a single drug
Dumping syndrome-undigested contents of stomach are dumped into your
small intestine too rapidly
Dysgeusia-distortion of the sense of taste
Dysphagia-difficulty swallowing
Dysphonia-disorder of the voice
Emetogenic- induce vomiting
Fusion inhibitors- Antiretroviral medication that helps prevent HIV
Integrase inhibitors- Class of antiretroviral drug designed to block the action
of integrase,
Lactic acidosis- Metabolic acidosis caused by accumulation of lactic acid
Lipodystrophy syndrome- Disturbance of lipid metabolism that involves the
partial or total absence of fat.
Macrophage- White blood cells
Mucositis- Inflammation of a mucous membrane.
Nadir- The lowest value of blood counts after chemotherapy.
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy- Administration of therapeutic agents before the
main treatment.
Neutropenia- The presence of abnormally small numbers of neutrophils in
the circulating blood.
Odynophagia- Pain on swallowing
Oxidative stress- Imbalance between the production and manifestation of
reactive oxygen
Pallative- Medical care of reducing disease symptoms
Prognosis- Forecast of the outcome of a disease
Prokinetic- Agent that promotes intestinal peristalsis
Protease inhibitors- Class of drugs used to treat or prevent infection by
viruses, including HIV and Hepatitis C
Reverse transcriptase inhibitor- class of antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV
infection, tumors, and cancer
Retrovirus- Any virus of the family Retroviridae.
Terminal- end stages of an illness
Viral load- Measure of the severity of a viral infection
Xerostoma- Dry mouth
Abbreviations:
AIDS: acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AJCC: American joint commission for cancer
ANC: absolute neutrophil count
ART: antiretroviral therapy
ARV: antiretroviral
AWS: wasting syndrome
BCM: B-cell maturation
BRM: biological response modifier
CEA: carcinoembrynol antigen
CINN: Chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting
CRP: cyclic receptor protein
DCH: daily chronic headache
Elisa: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
Flt: food-induced thermogenisis
FOBT: fecal occult blood test
GVHD: graft versus cells host disease
HAART: highly active antiretrovirus therapy
HMB: human myglobin
IGF-1: insulin-like growth factor
RT: radiation therapy
RND: reflex neurovascular dystrophy
SRS: stereotactic radiosurgery
TNM: tumor-node-metastasis