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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
A measure of the risk of a certain event happening. In cancer research, it is the likelihood that a person who is free of a specific type of cancer at a given age will develop that cancer over a certain period of time. For example, a woman 35 years of age, with no known risk factors for breast cancer, has an absolute risk of getting breast cancer over a lifetime of 90 years of about 13.5%, meaning one out of every seven women will develop breast cancer.
Industry:Health care
El proceso de toma de nutrientes desde el sistema digestivo en la sangre así que pueden ser utilizados en el cuerpo.
Industry:Health care
A substance that prevents cells from making or using androgens (hormones that play a role in the formation of male sex characteristics). Antiandrogens may stop some cancer cells from growing. Some antiandrogens are used to treat prostate cancer, and others are being studied for this use. An antiandrogen is a type of hormone antagonist.
Industry:Health care
Treatment with drugs used to block production or interfere with the action of male sex hormones.
Industry:Health care
A scientist who has special training in the study of the chemicals and processes that occur in all living things.
Industry:Health care
La parte interna de la glándula suprarrenal (un órgano pequeño encima de cada riñón). La médula suprarrenal hace productos químicos tales como la epinefrina (adrenalina) y norepinefrina (noradrenalina) que están implicados en el envío de las señales nerviosas.
Industry:Health care
Cirugía para extirpar una o ambas glándulas suprarrenales (un órgano pequeño encima de cada riñón).
Industry:Health care
Tienen que ver con la reducción del crecimiento de nuevos vasos sanguíneos.
Industry:Health care
La ciencia del uso de computadoras, bases de datos y matemáticas para organizar y analizar grandes cantidades de información biológica, medicina y salud. Información puede provenir de muchas fuentes, incluyendo estadísticas de pacientes, muestras de tejido, investigación genética y los ensayos clínicos.
Industry:Health care
Having to do with or made by the outer layer of the adrenal gland, which produces steroid hormones. There is an adrenal gland on top of each kidney.
Industry:Health care
