ABBREVIATION GLOSSARY in BREAST CANCER
ABBREVIATION GLOSSARY
AC Adriamycin, cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan)
ACC Arlington Cancer Center (ACC’91 is a protocol I wrote here in 1991 for inflammatory breast cancer. In 1994, MDA started FAC-Taxol. These were the only protocols in which Adriamycin was given by continuous infusion.)
ASCO American Society of Clinical Oncology
BCG Bacille Calmette Guerin, a vaccine against tuberculosis that was used in cancer therapy as an immunostimulant.
BCIRG Breast Cancer International Research Group
CAF same as FAC (from people who wanted to do the same thing but didn’t want to appear to be agreeing with us)
CALGB Cancer and Leukemia Group B
CAT cyclophosphamide, Adriamycin, Taxol
CAVe cyclophosphamide, Adriamycin, etoposide
CDDP cisplatin
CEA carcinoembryonic antigen (a tumor biomarker)
CMF cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil
CMFVP cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil, vincristine, prednisone
ER estrogen receptor: positive 1, negative 2
FAC 5-FU, Adriamycin, cyclophosphamide
FAC/BCG 5-fluorouracil, Adriamycin, cyclophosphamide/BCG
FUMEP mitomycin C, cisplatin, 5-FU, etoposide (VP-16)
G-CSF Neupogen, a white blood cell stimulant
HER2 an epithelial growth hormone receptor that is the gene product of the
HER2 gene (Herceptin is a humanized monoclonal antigen that blocks
this receptor)
IBC inflammatory breast cancer
L-PAM L-phenylalanine mustard
PR progesterone receptor: positive 1, negative 2
MCCFUD methotrexate, cisplatin, 5-fluorouracil, cyclophosphamide, leucovorin (leucovorin rescues patients from methotrexate toxicity)
MDA M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX
MOPP Combination of Mustargen (mechlorethamine), Oncovin (vincristine), procarbazine, and prednisone used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease.
MTX/VLB methotrexate/Velban
NCI National Cancer Institute
NED no evidence of disease
NSABP National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Program
SWOG Southwest Oncology Group
TAC Taxotere (docetaxel), Adriamycin, and cyclophosphamide
ThioTEPA an alkylating chemotherapy agent related to nitrogen mustard
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