| A | B |
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| Remission | a temporary or permanent decrease or subsidence of manifestations of a disease |
| Indignity | an injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment; humiliating affront, insult, or injury |
| Advocacy | the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending |
| Oncologist | a specialist that deals with the branch of medicine that deals with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention |
| Marginally | at the outer or lower limits; minimal for requirements; almost insufficient |
| Median | situated in or pertaining to the middle |
| Placebo | a substance containing no medication and prescribed or given to reinforce a patient's expectation to get well |
| Chronic | of long duration; continuing - Lasting for a long period of time or marked by frequent recurrence, as certain diseases |
| Exhaustively | tending to exhaust or drain, as resources or strength |
| Hospice | a health-care facility for the terminally ill that emphasizes pain control and emotional support for the patient and family |
| Metastatic | the transference of disease-producing organisms or of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces - the condition produced by this |
