On this page there is halfway down a link to the best NCI medical dictionary that will help you sort through terminology. http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/resources/index.htm

For all the abbreviations that everyone uses here, would someone please post the link to the thread where we discussed this and made a list? Once it's up again I'll send it to Chester and get it up on the permanent archived threads links.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.