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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
A substance that blocks an enzyme needed to form blood vessels. Also called VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
Industry:Health care
A slowly progressing type of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disease in which too many myelomonocytes (a type of white blood cell) are in the bone marrow, crowding out other normal blood cells, such as other white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. Also called CMML.
Industry:Health care
A soft tissue tumor that is most common in infants and young children. It begins in muscles, usually in the head, neck, or genitourinary tract. Also called ERMS.
Industry:Health care
One of a group of substances used to treat cancer. A fluoropyrimidine is a type of antimetabolite. Examples are capecitabine, floxuridine, and fluorouracil (5-FU).
Industry:Health care
The most common type of invasive breast cancer. It starts in the cells that line the milk ducts in the breast, grows outside the ducts, and often spreads to the lymph nodes.
Industry:Health care
Having to do with the two innermost meninges (thin layers of tissue that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord).
Industry:Health care
A hormonal anticancer drug that is also used in cancer prevention. It belongs to the family of drugs called progestins.
Industry:Health care
