Medical Conditions
This type of cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women worldwide.
What is Breast cancer?
This healthcare professional specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases of the skin, hair, and nails.
Who is a dermatologist?
This medical term describes an abnormally fast heart rate, typically exceeding 100 beats per minute in a resting adult.
What is tachycardia?
This screening test uses low-dose X-rays to detect breast cancer, sometimes before a person experiences any symptoms.
What is a mammogram?
This healthcare professional operates the heart-lung machine during open-heart surgery, temporarily taking over the functions of the patient's heart and lungs.
Who is a cardiovascular perfusionist?
This structure in the brain regulates body temperature, hunger, thirst, and hormone release through its connection to the pituitary gland.
What is the hypothalamus?
These two inherited genes are associated with an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer when they contain harmful mutations.
What are BRCA1 and BRCA2?
This cranial nerve, also known as cranial nerve X, helps regulate heart rate, digestion, and other involuntary functions of the body.
What is the Vagus Nerve?
This type of breast cancer treatment uses medications that travel through the bloodstream to destroy rapidly dividing cancer cells throughout the body.
What is chemotherapy?
This medical condition occurs when the body produces too much cortisol, often resulting in a rounded face, a fatty hump between the shoulders, purple stretch marks, and weight gain around the abdomen.
What is Cushing syndrome?
This healthcare professional specializes in diagnosing and treating disorders of the blood and blood-forming organs, including anemia, leukemia, and clotting disorders.
Who is a hematologist?
In medical records, this abbreviation refers to a condition in which the lungs cannot move air effectively because of chronic airflow obstruction. What does COPD stand for?
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?
This hormone, produced by the pancreas, raises blood glucose levels by stimulating the liver to release stored glucose.
What is glucagon?
When breast cancer spreads beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes to distant organs such as the lungs, liver, or bones, it is classified as this stage of cancer.
What is Stage IV (metastatic) breast cancer?
This medical condition causes sudden episodes of intense joint pain, swelling, and redness, most commonly affecting the big toe, due to the buildup of uric acid crystals.
What is gout?
This healthcare professional specializes in studying tissue samples under a microscope to identify abnormalities and assists pathologists by preparing and screening tissue specimens for microscopic examination.
Who is a histotechnologist?
This part of the nephron is primarily responsible for filtering blood plasma into Bowman's capsule, beginning the process of urine formation.
What is the glomerulus?
This is one of the most common physical warning signs of breast cancer and may be discovered during a breast examination.
What is a new lump or mass in the breast?