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Pronunciation: /etidronate*/

etidronate

Definition

A drug that belongs to the family of drugs called bisphosphonates. Bisphosphonates are used as treatment for hypercalcemia (abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood) and for cancer that has spread to the bone (bone metastases).

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lobectomy

pancreatic endocrine cancer

P30 Cancer Center Support Grant

ovarian low malignant potential tumor

posterior urethral cancer

lymphatic system

KRN5500

radial scar

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anti-CD71/vcMMAE probody-drug conjugate CX-2029

cycloleucine

acenocoumarol

leucine-enhanced essential amino acid dietary supplement

anti-CEACAM6 AFAIKL2 antibody fragment/Jack Bean urease immunoconjugate L-DOS47

Pemazyre

synthetic brain tumor peptides-pulsed autologous dendritic cell vaccine

Myc inhibitor WBC100

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X-linked recessive inheritance

heterogeneity logarithm of the odds score

PCR

de novo mutation

cascade testing

genomic imprinting

hereditary predisposition

multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification

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