Oncology

Question 1

Cachexia

Answer 1

General ill health and malnutrition associated with chronic diseases

Question 2

Carcinoma in situ

Answer 2

Localized tumor growth

Question 3

Electrocauterization

Answer 3

Burning tissue to destroy it

Question 4

Chemotherapy

Answer 4

Treatment using drugs

Question 5

Cryosurgery

Answer 5

Destruction of tissue using Cold temperatures

Question 6

Cystic tumor

Answer 6

Tumor forms with large open spaces filled with fluid

Question 7

Fibrosarcoma

Answer 7

Malignant tumor of fiber producing cells

Question 8

Follicular

Answer 8

Pertaining to microscopic description of tumor growth in small gland type sacs

Question 9

Fungating tumor

Answer 9

Mushrooming pattern of growth in which tumor cells pile on one top of another in project from the tissue surface

Question 10

Medullary tumor

Answer 10

Large, soft, fleshy tumor

Question 11

Mucositis

Answer 11

Inflammation of mucous membranes

Question 12

Mutation

Answer 12

Change in genetic material of a cell

Question 13

Mutagenic

Answer 13

Pertaining to producing mutation

Question 14

Necrotic

Answer 14

Tumor containing dead cells

Question 15

Neurofibromatosis

Answer 15

Tumor of fibrous connective tissue surrounding nerve cells

Question 16

Oncology

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Study of tumors

Question 17

Papillary

Answer 17

Pertaining to tumors that grow in small nipple like or fingerlike pattern

Question 18

Dysplastic

Answer 18

Pertaining to abnormal growth of cells but not clearly cancerous

Question 19

Pleomorphic

Answer 19

Pertaining to tumors that contain a variety of cell types

Question 20

Protocol

Answer 20

Detailed plan for treatment of illness

Question 21

Polypoid tumor

Answer 21

Tumors grow as projections extending outward from a base

Question 22

Radiation

Answer 22

Use of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease

Question 23

Osteosarcoma

Answer 23

Ligament tumor of bone a.k.a. flesh tissue of bone

Question 24

Scirrhous

Answer 24

Pertaining to hard, densely packed tumors, overgrown with fibrous tissue

Question 25

Xerostomia

Answer 25

Condition of dry mouth

Question 26

Retinoblastoma

Answer 26

Tumor of the retina of the eye which is congenital in a hereditary tumor

Question 27

Neroblastoma

Answer 27

Cancerous tumor of embryonic nervous tissue or a sarcoma composed of neuroblasts and affecting infants and children up to 10 years of age that you were usually arises in the autonomic nervous system

Question 28

Angiogenesis

Answer 28

Formation of blood vessels

Question 29

Adenocarcinoma

Answer 29

Cancerous tumor of glandular tissue

Question 30

Hyperplasia

Answer 30

Condition of increase growth of cells

Question 31

Neoplasm

Answer 31

New growth of the tumor

Question 32

Myelosuppression

Answer 32

Stopping or inhibit the growth of bone marrow tissue this means that blood cells normally formed in bone marrow or not produced

Question 33

Radiotherapy

Answer 33

Are you noising radiation used to treat malignancies

Question 34

Anaplasia

Answer 34

Reversion of cells to a more embryonic type

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Apoptosis

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Programmed cell death

Question 36

Brachytherapy

Answer 36

Implantation of small sealed containers or seeds of radioactive material directly or near tumors

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Epidermoid

Answer 37

Resembling up a dermal tissue

Question 38

Metastasis

Answer 38

The spread of a malignant tumor from its original location to a distant site

Question 39

Metaplasia

Answer 39

Abnormal transformation of adult differentiated cells to differentiated tissue of another kind

Question 40

Teletherapy

Answer 40

Radiation therapy using high energy beams from a distant sources such as a linear Excelerator or cyclotron

Question 41

BX

Answer 41

Biopsy

Question 42

CA

Answer 42

Cancer

Question 43

DNA

Answer 43

Deoxyribosenucleic acid

Question 44

Mets

Answer 44

Metastases

Question 45

TNM

Answer 45

Tumor, nodes, metastases

Question 46

Alveolar

Answer 46

Pertaining to tumor growth in small microscopic sax