IMPORTANT CANCER TERMS AND ITS MEANINGS-LESSON 127

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1. Adjuvant therapy: Assisting primary treatment. Drugs are given early in the course of treatment along with surgery or radiation to attack cancer cells that may be too small to be detected by diagnostic techniques.

2. Alkylating agents: Synthetic chemicals containing alkyl groups that interfere with DNA synthesis.

3. Anaplasia: Loss of differentiation of cells. Reversion to a more primitive cell type.

4. Antibiotics: Chemical substances produced by bacteria that inhibit the growth of cells used in cancer chemotherapy.

5. Antimetabolites: Chemicals that prevent cell division by inhibiting the formation of substances necessary to make DNA and used in cancer chemotherapy.

6. Apoptesis: Programmed cell death. Apo- means off, away, and -ptosis means to fall. Normal cells undergo apoptesis when they are damaged or aging. Some cancer cells have lost the ability to undergo apoptesis and live forever.

7. Benign: Noncancerous.

6. Biological response modifiers: Substances produced by normal cells that either directly block tumor growth or stimulate the immune system.

7. Biological therapy: Use of the body's own defense mechanism to fight tumor cells.

8. Carcinogens: Agents that cause cancer. Chemicals and drugs, radiation, and viruses.

9. Cellular oncogens: Pieces or DNA hat when broken or dislocated can cause a normal cell to become malignant.

10. Chemotherapy: Treatment with drugs

11. Combination chemotherapy: Use of several therapeutic agents together in the treatment of tumors.

12. Dedifferentiation: Loss of differentiation of cells. Reversion to a more primitive, embryonic cell type anaplasia.

13. DNA or deoxyribinucleic acid: Genetic material within the nucleus of a cell that controls cell division and protein synthesis.

14. Differentiation: Specialization of cells.

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