Mesothelioma Legal Terms
Medical Terms for Mesothelioma are provided on the following list with definitions,
and explanations that are commonly used in the diagnosis, treatment options
and research studies on Mesothelioma and other asbestos-related cancers.
When you are first diagnosed with Mesothelioma you will start hearing many
of these new
medical terms that are related to your Mesothelioma treatment. Some of these words can
sound intimidating and hard to understand. These pages are intended to
help give Mesothelioma patients and their families a better understanding
and a brief overview of the most common and some uncommon terms related
to the condition of Mesothelioma.
Medical Terms for a Mesothelioma Lawyer
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Mesothelioma Medical Terms
A – Mesothelioma Medical Terms
B – Medical Terms
- Benign
- Blocking of ERK1 and ERK2
- Biomarker
- Biopsy
- Biphasic Mesothelioma
- Brachytherapy (Intracavitary Radiation Therapy)
- Bronchi
- Bronchopleural Fistula
- Bronchoscopy
C – Mesothelioma Medical Terms
- Cachexia
- Cancer
- Cancer Center
- Cancer Support Groups
- Carboplatin Plus Pemetrexed as First-Line Treatment – Malignant Pleural
Mesothelioma
- Carcinogen
- Carcinogenic
- Carcinomas in the Lung and Pleura
- Cardiologist
- Catheter
- Chemotherapy
- Chemotherapy Combination of Pemetrexed and Cisplatin
- Chemoresistance to Anti-Cancer Drugs
- Chemotherapeutic Drug Resistance
- Chest Pain
- Chest Radiography
- Chronic Cough
- Childhood Mesothelioma
- Clinical Staging
- Cisplatin (Platinol)
- Clinical Trial
- Cold-Plasma Coagulation – Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Treatment
- Combination Chemotherapy
- Complementary Therapies for Mesothelioma
- Complete Remission
- Complete Response
- Computed Tomography (CT Scan)
- Chronic Pain
- Crocidolite
- CT Scan
- Curative Treatment
- Cytokines
- CytologyCytoreductive Surgery
- Cytotoxicity of NK Cells
D – Medical Terms
- Dastanib (Anti-Cancer Drug)
- DecorticationDetection of Pleural Mesothelioma
- Depression
- Detect Pleural Mesothelioma Early Stages
- Diagnosis
- Diaphragm
- Doxorubicin (Anti-Cancer Drug)
- Dual Drug Therapy
- Dyspnea
E – Mesothelioma Medical Terms
- Echocardiogram
- Echocardiography
- Empyema
- Environmental Lung Diseases
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Enzyme-Based Treatment
- Epidural Catheter
- Epithelial Mesothelioma
- Esophagus
- Exhaled Biomarkers for Asbestos-Related Disease
- Experimental Mesothelioma Drug Enters Phase 2 Trial
- Experimental Mesothelioma Drug – ADI-PEG 20
- External Beam RadiationExtrapleural Pneumonectomy
- Extrapleural Pneumonectomy
F – Medical Terms
- Fatigue
- Federal Drug Administration (FDA)
- Fibrosis
- First-Line Mesothelioma Treatment
- Four-Gene Expression Ratio Test
- Front-line Mesothelioma Drug
G – Mesothelioma Medical Terms
- Gemcitabine (Gemzar)
- Gene Therapy
- Genetically-Encoded Protein Calretinin
- Genetic Test Offers Earlier Detection of Mesothelioma
- Gefitinib
- Grim Prognosis
H – Medical Terms
- Health Maintenance Organization / HMO
- Heated Chemoperfusion
- Hemoptysis
- Hemorrhage
- Histologic Subtype for Malignant Mesothelioma
- Hospice
- Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
- Hyperthermic
- Human Mesothelioma Cells to Doxorubicin
- Human Malignant Mesothelioma (MM) Cell Lines
I – Mesothelioma Medical Terms
- Icardium
- Imaging
- Immunohistochemistry (IHC)
- Immunostaining
- Immunotherapy
- Immune Function
- Immune Reactions
- Industrial Disease
- Informed Consent In Clinical Trials
- Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Interferon
- Interleukin
- Intracavitary Chemotherapy
- Intracavitary Radiation Therapy
- Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
- Invasive Cancer
- In Vitro Chemotherapeutic Drug Resistance
L – Medical Terms
- Latency Period
- Laparoscope
- Larynx
- Light-Based Radiation Therapy
- Linear Accelerator
- Lung Cancer
- Lung-Sparing Therapies
- Lung-Sparing Therapies for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM)
- Lymphatic System
- Lymphatic Vessels
- Lymph Nodes
- Lymphocyte
