这些词你可能会听到你的医疗团队使用...

• 辅助治疗: 附加疗法:在主要疗法之外使用的一种治疗方法. 放射治疗常被用作手术的辅助手段.
• 脱发: 脱发.
• 麻醉: Loss of feeling or sensation resulting from the use of certain drugs or gases.
• 止吐剂: 预防或治疗恶心或呕吐的药.
• 良性肿瘤: 用于描述非癌变肿瘤的术语.
• 生物疗法: 治疗 that stimulates the body's immune defense system to fight infection and disease. 也叫免疫疗法或免疫疗法.
• 活组织检查: The removal of a sample of tissue that is examined under a microscope to see if cancer cells are present.
• 近距离放射疗法: Internal radiation treatment achieved by implanting radioactive material directly into the tumor or close to it. 有时被称为内部放射治疗.
• 癌症: A general term for more than 100 diseases that have uncontrolled, abnormal growth of cells that can invade and destroy healthy tissues.
• 导管: A thin, flexible tube through which fluids enter or leave the body.
• 化疗: 用药物治疗癌症.
• 钴60: A radioactive substance sometimes used as a radiation source to treat cancer.
• 营养师 (也 registered dietitian): A professional who plans well-balanced, 饮食计划, including special diets to meet needs of people with various medical conditions.
• 放射剂量测试员: A person who plans and calculates the proper radiation dose for treatment.
• 电子束: A stream of high-energy particles called electrons used to treat cancer.
• 外部辐射: Radiation therapy that uses a machine located outside of the body to aim high-energy rays at cancer cells.
• 分离: Dividing the total dose of radiation into smaller doses in order to give healthy tissue time to repair itself.
• 伽马射线: High-energy rays that come from a radioactive source such as cobalt-60.
• 灰色: A measurement of the amount of radiation dose absorbed by the body (1 Gray = 100 rads).
• 高剂量率远程近距离放射治疗: A type of internal radiation in which each treatment is given in a few minutes while the radioactive source is in place. 在两次处理之间，放射性源被移除. Also known as high-dose-rate remote afterloading radiation therapy.
• Hyperfractionated辐射: Division of the total dose of radiation into smaller doses that are given more than once a day.
• 免疫疗法: 治疗 that stimulates the body's immune defense system to fight infection and disease. 也称为生物疗法或免疫疗法.
• 植入物: A small container of radioactive material placed in or near a cancer.
• 内部辐射: A type of therapy in which a radioactive substance is implanted into or close to the area needing treatment. 也叫近距离放射疗法.
• 间隙辐射: A type of internal radiation in which a radioactive source (implant) is placed directly into the tissue (not in a body cavity).
• 腔内辐射: A type of internal radiation in which a radioactive source (implant) is placed in a body cavity, 比如阴道.
• 术中放疗: A type of external radiation therapy used to deliver a large dose of radiation to the tumor and surrounding tissue at the time of surgery.
• 直线加速器: A machine that creates high-energy radiation to treat cancers, using electricity to form a stream of fast-moving subatomic particles. 也称为超电压(MeV)直线加速器或直线加速器.
• 恶性肿瘤: 癌变.
• 医学肿瘤学家: A doctor who is specially trained in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and who specializes in the use of chemotherapy and other drugs to treat cancer.
• 转移: The spread of cancer cells to distant areas of the body by way of the lymph system or bloodstream.
• 肿瘤专家: A physician who specializes in caring for people who have cancer.
• 肿瘤: The branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
• 姑息治疗: 治疗 to relieve, rather than cure, symptoms caused by cancer. 姑息治疗可以帮助人们生活得更舒适.
• 理疗师: A health professional who uses exercises and other methods to restore or maintain the body's strength, 流动性, 和功能.
• 血小板: 帮助止血的特殊血细胞.
• 港口 (也 治疗领域): The area of the body through which external beam radiation is directed to reach a tumor.
• 假: 人工替换身体的一部分.
• 制图: 放射时间:给予一个放射过程的时间.
• Rad: Short form for "radiation absorbed dose"; a measurement of the amount of radiation absorbed by the body (100 rad = 1 Gray).
• 辐射: 由波或粒子流携带的能量.
• 放射肿瘤学家: 专门用放射治疗癌症的医生. Radiation physicist: A person trained to ensure that the radiation machine delivers the right amount of radiation to the treatment site. Assists the radiation oncologist and dosimetrist in the design, 规划, 以及放射治疗适当剂量的计算.
• 辐射治疗: A person with special training to work the equipment that delivers the radiation.
• 放射治疗: The use of high-energy penetrating rays or subatomic particles to treat disease. 辐射的种类包括: x-ray, conformal, electron beam, alpha and beta particle, and gamma ray. 放射性物质包括: 钴，镭，铱，铯，碘和钯.
• 放射治疗护士: A registered nurse who has extensive training in oncology and radiation therapy.
• 放射科医生: A physician with special training in reading and interpreting diagnostic x-rays and performing specialized x-ray procedures.
• 抗辐射性: 当细胞对辐射没有反应时.
• 辐射敏感度: 一个细胞，不管是癌变的还是健康的，对辐射有多敏感. Cells that divide frequently are especially radiosensitive and are more affected by radiation.
• 仿真: A process involving special x-ray pictures that are used to plan radiation treatment so that the area to be treated is precisely located and marked.
• 社会工作者: A mental health professional with a master's degree in 社会 work (MSW). A 社会 worker can provide assistance in dealing with medical, 心理, 社会, 以及教育需求.
• 远距治疗: 治疗 in which the radiation source is at a distance from the body (external radiation).
• 治疗领域 (or 港口): The place on the body at which the radiation beam is aimed.
• 肿瘤: 肿块不正常的肿块或组织团块. Tumors are either benign (noncancerous) or malignant (cancerous).
• 非密封内部放射治疗: Internal radiation therapy given by injecting a radioactive substance into the bloodstream or a body cavity. 这种物质没有密封在容器中.
• 白细胞: 帮助保护身体免受感染的血细胞.
• x射线: One form of radiation that can be used at low levels to produce an image of the body on film or at high levels to destroy cancer cells.