You have reached Families Facing Cancer’s Cancer Glossary – a place where you can find short, simple explanations for all those words and jargon phrases that appear when someone has cancer. The words are grouped by letters to make them easier to find – so click on the letter the word or phrase begins with to find it. If the word you’re looking for isn’t there, please contact us. We’ll send you the best explanation we can, and add it to our list.

If a letter can’t be clicked on, then we don’t yet have any words or phrases for that letter.

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