Anaplasia- the loss of the mature or specialu

Biotherapy, also known as biological therapy or immunotherapy, is a treatment to boost or restore

the ability of the immune system to fight cancer, infections, and other diseases. It is also used to
lessen certain side effects that may be caused by some cancer treatments.
Brachytherapy (brak-e-THER-uh-pee) is a procedure that involves placing radioactive
material inside your body.

Brachytherapy is one type of radiation therapy that's used to treat cancer.

Brachytherapy is sometimes called internal radiation.

Cachexia : weakness and wasting of the body due to severe chronic illness.
Cancer: a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body.
Carcinogenesis: the initiation of cancer formation.
Cell cycle: the ordered sequence of events that occur in a cell in preparation for cell division
Chemotherapy is a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-
growing cells in your body. Chemotherapy is most often used to treat cancer,
since cancer cells grow and multiply much more quickly than most cells in the
body.
Differentiation occurs numerous times during the development of a multicellular organism as it
changes from a simple zygote to a complex system of tissues and cell types.
Dysplasia is any of various types of abnormal growth or development of cells
(microscopic scale) and/or organs (macroscopic scale), and/or the abnormal
histology or anatomical structure presumably resulting from such growth.
Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain
and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life.
Hyperplasia: An increase in the number of cells in an organ or tissue. These cells appear normal
under a microscope. They are not cancer, but may become cancer.
Metaplasia: A change of cells to a form that does not normally occur in the tissue in which it is
found.
Metastasis: The spread of cancer cells from the place where they first formed to another part of
the body.

Neoplasm: An abnormal mass of tissue that forms when cells grow and divide more than they
should or do not die when they should.

Oncogene: A gene that is a mutated (changed) form of a gene involved in normal cell growth.

Oncology: A branch of medicine that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Proto-oncogene: A normal gene which, when altered by mutation, becomes an oncogene that can
contribute to cancer. Proto-oncogenes may have many different functions in the cell. Some proto-
oncogenes provide signals that lead to cell division. Other proto-oncogenes regulate programmed
cell death (apoptosis).

Radiation therapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses beams of intense

energy to kill cancer cells. Radiation therapy most often uses X-rays, but
protons or other types of energy also can be used. The term "radiation
therapy" most often refers to external beam radiation therapy.

Tumor markers are substances, often proteins, that are produced by the cancer tissue
itself or sometimes by the body in response to cancer growth. Because some of these
substances can be detected in body samples such as blood, urine, and tissue, these
markers may be used, along with other tests and procedures, to help detect and
diagnose some types of cancer, predict and monitor a person's response to certain
treatments, and detect recurrence.

Xerostomia is defined as dry mouth resulting from reduced or absent saliva

flow. Xerostomia is not a disease, but it may be a symptom of various
medical conditions, a side effect of a radiation to the head and neck, or a side
effect of a wide variety of medications.