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Cancer and Leukaemia Terms and Titles
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Displaying 24 terms beginning with "G"
This is a small organ, near the liver. It stores bile, a liquid the liver uses to help digest fats.
Gametes are eggs or sperm, fully developed cells produced by the ovary or testes.
See Filgrastim.
See Myelocytomatosis Viral Related Oncogene Neuroblastoma.
This an anaesthetic, where the patient is put to sleep, loses consciousness, whilst an operation is carried out. An anaesthetic is used so that an operation or procedure can be carried out, without the patient feeling pain.
See GP.
A person's genes are their body's instruction manual, affecting the way they look, their health and the way their body works. They are the biological information we inherit from our parents, controlling the development and growth of our bodies and the way cells behave. Genes are the codes that control the body's cells.
To do with the genes.
Germ Cell Tumours develop from the cells that produce eggs in the ovary or sperm in the testes, the reproductive organs. These relatively rare tumours, can be either benign or malignant. Most ovarian and testicular tumours found in children start in the germ cells.
Germ Cells are the cells that produce eggs in the ovary or sperm in the testes, the reproductive organs.
This is an organ that produces and releases one or more substances for use in the body
Glaucoma, loss of vision caused by abnormally high pressure building up in the eye.
Glioma is a type of cancer, a tumour that forms in the brain or spine. It is called a glioma because it occurs in the glial cells, most commonly found in the brain.
These are the ovaries or testes, which produce gametes: eggs or sperm.
Gonadal Germ Cell Tumours are tumours which occur in the gonad glands, the ovaries or testes.
GP, short for General Practitioner, is someone's family doctor, who would normally be the person that refers them to hospital, as a result of examining their symptoms.
Grading, measuring how potentially fast or slow growing cells are, when examined under the microscope. A doctor might refer to the 'grade' of a person's cancer.
GVHD short for Graft Versus Host Disease, is a condition which may occur, following a bone marrow transplant. This would be as a result of the donated bone marrow (the graft) reacting against the person receiving the bone marrow (the host) and causing problems such as diarrhoea or skin rashes.
This is the most common type of white blood cell. It develops from a myelocyte. Its function is to kill bacteria. A granulocyte is commonly known as a neutrophil. Doctors will want to make sure that granulocyte levels have not fallen below normal levels (Neutropaenia), if anti-cancer drugs are being used, which may cause that.
See Groshong Line.
Groshong Line or Groshong Catheter (pronounced grow shong), is a long, flexible tube inserted into a vein, which is designed so that more than one medicine can be given at a time, if necessary. It can also be used to take blood samples.
Growth is where something such as a cancer has grown bigger, increased in size. A tumour is sometimes called a growth.
Growth factors are natural substances that stimulate the bone marrow to make blood cells. Some growth factors can now be made artificially and used to treat cancer. They do this by increasing the number of white blood cells and stem cells in the blood. They may be given by injection during chemotherapy to help the bone marrow recover.
See Graft Versus Host Disease.
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