Anticancer drugs or hormones given after surgery and/or radiation to help prevent the cancer from coming back. Allocation

Hair loss. Anemia

A drug used to decrease pressure inside blood vessels. Anorexia

A medicine that prevents or controls nausea and vomiting. Arrhythmia

A term used to describe a tumor that is not cancerous. Beta blocker

Treatment to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune system to fight infection and disease. Also called immunotherapy. Blood count

The arteries, veins and capillaries through which blood circulates. Blood vessels can be donated and transplanted. Bone marrow

Occurs when a person's brain activity stops permanently. It is impossible to return to life after brain death. Bronchoscopy

Also called, non-living donors, are those who donate their organs or tissue after they have been declared brain dead. Calcium channel blocker (or calcium blocker)

A general term for more than 100 diseases in which abnormal cells grow out of control; a malignant tumor. Cardiac catheterization