English dictionary of cancer terms . 2015.
standard of care — In medicine, treatment that experts agree is appropriate, accepted, and widely used. Health care providers are obligated to provide patients with the standard of care. Also called standard therapy or best practice … English dictionary of cancer terms
therapy — 1. The treatment of disease or disorder by any method. SEE ALSO: therapeutics. 2. In psychiatry, and clinical psychology, a short term for psychotherapy. SEE ALSO: psychotherapy … Medical dictionary
Standard person — The standard person or reference person is a theoretical individual that has perfectly normal characteristics. This model is used for much research into radiation safety. For many years, the standard person was called reference man because the… … Wikipedia
Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons — The Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons, abbreviated SUSDP, is a document used in the regulation of drugs and poisons in Australia. It is produced by the National Drugs and Poisons Scheduling Committee (NDPSC), a committee of … Wikipedia
Neutron Capture Therapy of Cancer — Neutron Capture Therapy (NCT) is a noninvasive therapeutic modality for treating locally invasive malignant tumors such as primary brain tumors and recurrent head and neck cancer. It is a two step procedure: first, the patient is injected with a… … Wikipedia
Vacuum assisted closure wound therapy — Vacuum assisted closure (VAC) is a technique of wound closure used to promote healing in large or chronic wounds, fight infection and enhance healing of burns. VAC seals the wound with a foam dressing and applies negative pressure to the wound… … Wikipedia
Oral rehydration therapy — Nurses encouraging a patient to drink an oral rehydration solution to combat dehydration caused by cholera. Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is a simple treatment for dehydration associated with diarrhoea, particularly gastroenteritis or… … Wikipedia
Chelation therapy — is the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body. For the most common forms of heavy metal intoxication those involving lead, arsenic or mercury the standard of care in the United States dictates the use of… … Wikipedia
Music therapy — Intervention ICD 9 CM 93.84 MeSH … Wikipedia
Conversion therapy — Conversion therapy, sometimes called reparative therapy or reorientation therapy, is one type of sexual orientation change effort that attempts to change the sexual orientation of a person from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual.[1] These… … Wikipedia
