- Chemotherapy
- The systemic (whole body) treatment of cancer using specific chemical agents or drugs that are selectively destructive to the malignant cells and tissues.
- Glutathione
- A polypeptide of glycine, cysteine and glutamic acid that occurs widely in plant and animal tissues and is important in biological oxidation-reduction reactions.
- Hippocrates
- Greek physician (born c.460 BC) who laid the foundations of scientific medicine by freeing medical study from the constraints of philosophical speculation and superstition. He is traditionally but inaccurately considered the author of the Hippocratic oath.
- Multiple Myeloma
- The second-most common cancer of the blood, where antibody-producing plasma cells grow in an uncontrolled and invasive manner. This malignant proliferation of plasma cells in bone marrow causes numerous tumours, and is characterised by the presence of abnormal proteins in the blood.
- Plant, Professor Jane
- A scientist first struck with breat cancer in 1987, aged 42 who claims in her book "Your Life in Your Hands" to have cured herself with a no-dairy diet.
- Radio wave
- A wave from the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum at lower frequencies than microwaves. The wavelengths of radio waves range from thousands of metres to approx 30cm, or frequencies as low as 3Hz, and as high as 1 gigahertz.
- Stem Cell
- A cell from which a variety of other cells can deveop through the process of cellular differentiation. Embryonic stem cells can produce any cell in the body.
- Thalidomide
- A sedative and hypnotic drug sometimes used to treat aggressive cancers, including Multiple Myeloma.
- Townsend Report
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- Warburg, Otto
- German biochemist (1883-1970) who won a 1931 Nobel Prize for research on the respiration of cells. He was the first to observe that the growth of cancer cells requires much less oxygen than that of normal cells.
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