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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
Having to do with the area outside or behind the peritoneum (the tissue that lines the abdominal wall and covers most of the organs in the abdomen).
Industry:Health care
Freezing sperm for use in the future. This procedure can allow men to father children after loss of fertility.
Industry:Health care
Tough, fibrous, cord-like tissue that connects muscle to bone or another structure, such as an eyeball. Tendons help the bone or structure to move.
Industry:Health care
The lining of the urinary tract, including the renal pelvis, ureters, bladder, and urethra.
Industry:Health care
Treatment that combines chemotherapy with radiation therapy. Also called chemoradiation.
Industry:Health care
A form of the anticancer drug cytarabine that is contained inside very tiny, fat-like particles. It may have fewer side effects and work better than cytarabine. It is used to treat lymphoma that has spread to the meninges (three thin layers of tissue that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord). It is also being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer. It is a type of antimetabolite. Also called Depo-Cyt and liposomal cytarabine.
Industry:Health care
Outside of the living body. Refers to a medical procedure in which an organ, cells, or tissue are taken from a living body for a treatment or procedure, and then returned to the living body.
Industry:Health care
A term used in mammography that refers to the replacement of breast tissue with fatty tissue. This commonly occurs as a woman ages.
Industry:Health care
A type of slow-growing, malignant tumor that usually affects the ovary.
Industry:Health care
