Terminology

 

A to Z List of Cancers

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Dictionary of Genetics Terms

A dictionary of more than 100 genetics-related terms written for healthcare professionals. This resource was developed to support the comprehensive, evidence-based, peer-reviewed PDQ cancer genetics information summaries.

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Drug Dictionary

Includes estimated numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in 2009 by state for ten cancer sites, as well as cancer incidence and death rates by state, and the probability of developing cancer by age. Sections include: Tobacco Use, Cancer Disparities, Nutrition and Physical Activity, and Environmental Cancer Risks.

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NCI Thesaurus

A dictionary that contains technical definitions, alternate names, and links to related information for more than 1,200 agents that are being used in the treatment of patients with cancer or cancer-related conditions. Each entry includes a link to a more detailed entry in the NCI Thesaurus, which provides the information presented, as well as links to open and closed clinical trials in NCI's PDQ® Cancer Clinical Trials Registry.

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NCI MetaThesaurus

A comprehensive biomedical terminology database that contains 1,300,000 concepts mapped to 4,600,000 terms with 17,000,000 relationships. NCI Metathesaurus currently contains most public domain vocabularies from the National Library of Medicine's UMLS Metathesaurus, as well as a growing number of other cancer-related vocabularies.

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NCI Term Browser

Access to the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA), the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT), the Gene Ontology (GO), and other terminologies used by NCI and its partners.

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