Friday, August 12, 2016

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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