Chemo -therapy
The reason chemotherapies mostly kill cancer cells and not healthy cells (usually)
What is chemotherapies kills cells that are in the process of cell division?
Surgery performed when taking out the whole tumor would cause too much damage
What is debulking surgery?
Treatment performed before surgery
What is neo-adjuvant treatment?
Biopsies that give information about the condition of your stem cells
What is a bone marrow biopsy?
Imaging modality that projects soundwaves into the body with a transducer, listens for "reflections", and reconstructs where tissue interfaces are based on delay
What is ultrasound imagning?
Derived from a species of Streptomyces bacteria
What are anti-tumor antibiotics?
Surgery done to help improve the way the person looks after cancer surgery or to restore the function of an organ or body part after surgery
What is restorative surgery?
Treatments typically used as the primary therapy
What is surgery or radiation?
Procedure that utilizes a fiberoptic endoscope to obtain small pieces of tissue
What is an endoscopy?
Imaging modality where the signal source is hydrogen nuclei
What is magnetic resonance imaging?
Defined as interfering with the synthesis of the DNA constituents
What are antimetabolites?
Surgery to remove tissue that is likely to become cancerous
What is preventative surgery?
Treatment that uses high speed ionizing radiation
What is radiation therapy?
A very small amount of fluid or tissue is removed from a suspicious area with a thin, hollow needle that is then checked for cancer cells
What is a fine needle aspiration?
Imaging modality that depends on sound traveling at different speeds in different media (tissues)
What is ultrasound imaging?
Inhibits mitosis by disrupting microtubules (pull chromosomes apart)
What are mitotic inhibitors?
Surgery that is the main treatment for cancers that are easy to reach and are only found in one area of the body
What is curative surgery?
Treatment aimed at reducing side effects and improving quality of life, but not at curing the cancer
What is palliative treatment?
Biopsy usually done if blood tests are abnormal or don't provide enough information about a suspected problem
What is a bone marrow biopsy?
Spins in a strong magnetic field will precess around the ________ in magnetic resonance imaging
What is the B field?
Structural analogues that are highly similar to the nitrogenous bases of cell DNA
What are antimetabolites?
Surgery performed to help with other treatments, i.e. ports
What is supportive surgery?
Portion of the cell damaged by radiation therapy
What is DNA?
A medical test to remove a large piece of tissue from a lesion or a mass
What is a core needle biopsy?
Imaging modality that depends on annihilation coincidence detection
What is nuclear imaging or PET?