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- SurveillanceDoctors watching to see if you have signs of cancer before you have symptoms or if an early cancer is starting to grow. Surveillence may be used if you have an increased risk of developing a certain type of cancer or if you have had cancer or a precancerous condition in the past. You have(...)
- Symptom controlTreatment to manage or control the effects of a disease such as pain or sickness.
- Symptom (symptoms)Anything noticed by a patient that indicates there is something wrong. Can help the doctor diagnose a particular disease.
- SynovialMeans 'to do with the tissues lining the joints'. Synovial fluid is the fluid inside a joint. Synovial sarcoma is a type of cancer that starts in the cells inside a joint.
- Systematic reviewA study of the published results of several trials that have tested a particular treatment or therapy. The results of these trials are looked at together to draw a conclusion.
- Systemic diseaseA disease that affects the whole body. Leukaemias and lymphomas are systemic diseases because the blood system and the lymphatic system are all over the body. Systemic diseases are treated with treatments that can affect the whole body (such as chemotherapy) rather than local treatments such(...)
- Systemic treatmentTreatment that reaches the whole body. For example, chemotherapy is usually a systemic treatment because it circulates throughout the body in the blood stream. Systemic treatments are used for cancers that have already spread or may spread in the future.