 | Cancer dictionary of words, acronyms, abbreviations, & medical terms. |
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- umbilical cord blood transplantation
- The injection of umbilical cord blood to restore an individual's own blood production system suppressed by anticancer drugs, radiation therapy, or both. It is being studied in the More…
- uncontrolled study
- A clinical study that lacks a comparison (i.e., a control) group
- unconventional cancer treatments
- Approaches that use substances or methods of treating cancer that have not been shown to be effective by accepted scientific methods, such as carefully designed clinical trials
- undescended testicles
- A condition in which one or both testicles fail to move from the abdomen, where they develop before birth, into the scrotum. Undescended testicles may increase the risk for development of More…
- undifferentiated
- A term used to describe cells or tissues that do not have specialized (mature) structures or functions. Undifferentiated cancer cells often grow and spread quickly
- unilateral
- Having to do with one side of the body
- unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
- Surgery to remove the ovary and fallopian tube on one side of the body
- unresectable
- Unable to be removed with surgery
- unresectable gallbladder cancer
- Cancer that has spread to the tissues around the gallbladder (such as the liver, stomach, pancreas, intestine, or lymph nodes in the area) and cannot be surgically removed
- unsealed internal radiation therapy
- Radiation therapy given by injecting a radioactive substance into the bloodstream or a body cavity, or by swallowing it. This substance is not sealed in a container
- upper GI series
- A series of x-rays of the upper digestive (gastrointestinal, or GI) system that are taken after a person drinks a barium solution, which outlines the digestive organs on the x-rays
- upregulation
- Process that increases the responsiveness of a cell by increasing the number of receptors on the cell membrane
- urachal carcinoma
- Rare cancer that commonly arises in the dome of the urinary bladder at the vesicourachal junction
- urachus
- (YOU-rah-kus) A fibrous cord that connects the urinary bladder to the umbilicus (navel). The urachus is formed as the allantoic stalk during fetal development and lasts through life. Also More…
- uracil
- An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called alkylating agents
- urea nitrogen
- A chemical in the blood produced by the breakdown of protein. Urea nitrogen is removed from the blood by the kidneys. Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) tests are sometimes done to see how well the More…
- uremic
- Involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine, usually due to kidney insufficiency
- ureter
- (yoo-REE-ter) The tube that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder
- ureteritis
- Inflammation of the ureter
- ureteronephrectomy
- Surgery to remove a kidney and its ureter. Also called nephroureterectomy
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