Medical Jargon

Saving this space for new terms I come across. After the doc explained the diagnosis to me and passed me the pathology report, I had a peek and could only understand, say, 20%? He asked me if I had any more questions and I asked him to translate the report into plain English.

These are some common terms (I'll get round to updating them soon):

• lobular
• ductal
  
• carcinoma
• sentinel
• stage of cancer
• lymph node
• mammogram
• ultrasound
• Tamoxifen
• Zoladex
• chemotherapy
• radiotherapy
• estrogen (ER)
  
• (PR)
  
• (HER)
  
• lumpectomy
• mastectomy
• excision
• biopsy
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