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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
A form of hemoglobin found in the blood in small amounts. Unlike normal hemoglobin, methemoglobin cannot carry oxygen. Injury or certain drugs, chemicals, or foods may cause a higher-than-normal amount of methemoglobin to be made. This causes a condition called methemoglobinemia.
Industry:Health care
A benign (not cancer) growth on the skin that is formed by a cluster of melanocytes (cells that make a substance called melanin, which gives color to skin and eyes). A nevus is usually dark and may be raised from the skin. Also called mole.
Industry:Health care
A detailed plan of a scientific or medical experiment, treatment, or procedure. In clinical trials, it states what the study will do, how it will be done, and why it is being done. It explains how many people will be in the study, who is eligible to take part in it, what study drugs or other interventions will be given, what tests will be done and how often, and what information will be collected.
Industry:Health care
A drug combination that is used to treat infection in people with cancer. Piperacillin is a synthetic penicillin; tazobactam enhances the effectiveness of piperacillin.
Industry:Health care
Surgery to remove a tumor and a large amount of normal tissue surrounding it. Nearby lymph nodes may also be removed.
Industry:Health care
A term that is used to describe either a new primary cancer or cancer that has spread from the place in which it started to other parts of the body.
Industry:Health care
A medicine, vitamin, mineral, food supplement, or a combination of them that is being tested in a clinical trial.
Industry:Health care
Radiation therapy to the entire body. It is usually followed by bone marrow or peripheral stem cell transplantation.
Industry:Health care
The airway that leads from the larynx (voice box) to the bronchi (large airways that lead to the lungs). Also called trachea.
Industry:Health care
A poisonous chemical found in some foods and plants, tobacco smoke, and when certain substances are burned. It is used to make products such as paper, fabric, and plastic, and is used as a pesticide. Cyanide keeps cells in the body from using oxygen, so they die. Exposure to cyanide may cause serious health effects, including death.
Industry:Health care
