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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
The most common type of breast cancer. It begins in the cells that line the milk ducts in the breast.
Industry:Health care
A type of glioma (cancer of the brain that comes from glial, or supportive, cells).
Industry:Health care
An opening into the ileum, part of the small intestine, from the outside of the body. An ileostomy provides a new path for waste material to leave the body after part of the intestine has been removed.
Industry:Health care
In medicine, the place where two or more bones are connected. Examples include the shoulder, elbow, knee, and jaw.
Industry:Health care
A procedure in which high-energy sound waves are bounced off internal tissues or organs and make echoes. The echo patterns are shown on the screen of an ultrasound machine, forming a picture of body tissues called a sonogram. Also called ultrasonography.
Industry:Health care
A noninvasive condition in which abnormal cells are found in the lining of a breast duct. The abnormal cells have not spread outside the duct to other tissues in the breast. In some cases, ductal carcinoma in situ may become invasive cancer and spread to other tissues, although it is not known at this time how to predict which lesions will become invasive. Also called DCIS and intraductal carcinoma.
Industry:Health care
The part of the common hepatic bile duct (tube that collects bile from the liver) that is outside the liver. This duct joins a duct from the gallbladder to form the common bile duct, which carries bile into the small intestine when food is being digested.
Industry:Health care
Refers to the use of drugs to suppress the function of the ovaries or testicles.
Industry:Health care
A rare cancer of melanocytes (cells that produce the pigment melanin) found in the eye. Also called intraocular melanoma.
Industry:Health care
