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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
A doctor who specializes in creating and interpreting pictures of areas inside the body. The pictures are produced with x-rays, sound waves, or other types of energy.
Industry:Health care
A substance that may be found in high amounts in the blood of patients with certain types of cancer, including ovarian cancer. Cancer antigen 125 levels may also help monitor how well cancer treatments are working or if cancer has come back. Also called CA-125.
Industry:Health care
Practices often used to enhance or complement standard treatments. They generally are not recognized by the medical community as standard or conventional medical approaches. Complementary medicine may include dietary supplements, megadose vitamins, herbal preparations, special teas, acupuncture, massage therapy, magnet therapy, spiritual healing, and meditation.
Industry:Health care
A type of photography in which images can be viewed on a computer screen.
Industry:Health care
Radiation treatment aimed directly at a tumor during surgery. Also called IORT.
Industry:Health care
Examination by pressing on the surface of the body to feel the organs or tissues underneath.
Industry:Health care
The use of radiation (such as x-rays) or other imaging technologies (such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging) to diagnose or treat disease.
Industry:Health care
Radiation treatment in which the total dose of radiation is divided into small doses and treatments are given more than once a day. Also called hyperfractionated radiation therapy and hyperfractionation.
Industry:Health care
In medicine, the change that a normal cell undergoes as it becomes malignant.
Industry:Health care
