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Chemotherapy is the systemic (whole body) treatment of cancer with anticancer drugs.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill bacteria, viruses, fungi, and cancer cells. Most commonly, the term is used to refer to cancer-killing drugs. This article focuses on cancer chemotherapy.
Source:ADAM
Date:September 30, 2008
Chemotherapy is treatment of cancer with anticancer drugs .
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Chemotherapy, sometimes referred to as "chemo," is the treatment of cancer with anticancer drugs.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with anti- cancer drugs .
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Cancer is not just one disease, but a large group of almost 100 diseases. It is a genetic disease, with two main characteristics of uncontrolled growth of the cells in the human body and the ability of those cells to migrate from the original site...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Cancerous cells are also called malignant cells.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 2, 2008
Cancer is the end product of a multistep process (carcinogenesis) that occurs over many years. The term "cancer" actually refers to numerous distinct diseases characterized by abnormal cell growth and differentiation. Cancers are categorized by th...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
A group of diseases characterized by uncontrollable cell growth. Cancer is a family of diseases in which cells replicate at an extremely rapid pace. A cancerous, or malignant, tumor begins its growth at a primary site, damaging surrounding tissue ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
INCLUSION CRITERIA A preliminary list of cancers and related topics was compiled from a wide variety of sources, including professional medical guides and textbooks, as well as consumer guides and encyclopedias. The advisory board, made up of medi...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Cancer is not just one disease, but a large group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled and abnormal growth of the cells in the human body and the ability of these cells to spread to distant sites (metastasis). If the spread is not controlled,...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part I
Unfortunately, man must suffer disease. Some diseases are totally reversible and can be effectively treated. Moreover, some diseases with proper treatment have been virtually annihilated, such as polio, rheumatic fever, smallpox, and, to some exte...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute is the most authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States. Established in 1973, SEER originally provided ca...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth of tissue cells in the body and the invasion by these cells into nearby tissue and migration to distant sites.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Cancer is not just one disease, but a large group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled and abnormal growth of the cells in the human body and the ability of these cells to spread to distant sites (metastasis). If the spread is not controlled,...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
Cancer is not just one disease, but a large group of almost one hundred diseases. Its two main characteristics are uncontrolled growth of the cells in the human body and the ability of these cells to migrate from the original site and spread to di...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Cancer is characterized by uncontrolled growth of cells in the body and the ability of these malignant cells to spread (metastasize) to distant sites within the body. If the spread is not controlled, cancer can result in death. Cancer is not just ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Cancer is a disease characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Around the world, over 10 million cancer cases occur annually. Half of all men and one-third of all women in the United States will develop some form of can...
Source:Gale Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
A continuous process in which multiple alterations occur in genes that control cell division and differentiation that leads to cancer—the uncontrolled division and proliferation of cells. These genetic alterations are referred to as mutations, whi...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Penicillins are a group of closely related antibiotics that kill bacteria.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
The first of the first-generation antibiotics, Penicillium notatum is naturally produced by a mold. It was discovered serendipitously by British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming in 1928, and later developed successfully as a powerful therapeutic w...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
HIV infection is a disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV. The condition gradually destroys the immune system, which makes it harder for the body to fight infections. This article provides a general overview. For more detailed inf...
Source:ADAM
Date:May 30, 2009
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a systemic viral infection that weakens the body's ability to fight infection and can cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( AIDS , the last stage of HIV disease). HIV preventative measures are a set of p...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) by infecting helper T cells of the immune system. The most common serotype, HIV-1, is distributed worldwide, while HIV-2 is primarily confine...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is the final, life-threatening stage of infection with any of the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV-1, its many subtypes, or HIV-2), which are transmitted from person to person sexually (including via...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Injection drug use (IDU) contributes to considerable illness burden in both developed and developing countries. Transmission of blood-borne pathogens (e.g., HIV, hepatitis B and C virus, Human T-Cell Lymphotrophic viruses I and II, and malaria) oc...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) was identified in 1983 by the French scientist Luc Montagier and his staff at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Ever since that discovery, scientists have been searching for ways to treat those infected with HIV, a...
Source:Gale Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
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