Understand a cancer word or medicine
Enter a cancer-related word, an abbreviation from your report, or the name of a medicine used in cancer care.
Look up definitions from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), then explore related reading from Cancer Therapy India (CTI).
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Some terms have more than one meaning. We’ll show the available meanings so you can choose the one that fits your report.
Definitions are provided by the US National Cancer Institute (NCI). Some medicine and thesaurus entries use technical language and are labelled separately. A definition does not tell you which treatment is right for you.
NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms ↗ · NCI Drug Dictionary ↗ · NCI Thesaurus attribution and licence ↗ · Medical disclaimer
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