HEAL:BCC Word List

What This Book Is About

This book is a mini-dictionary to be used along with the Health Education and Adult Literacy: Breast and Cervical Cancer (HEAL:BCC) curriculum. It can help you learn the vocabulary words used in the lessons. Many of these words are related to cancer. Learning about cancer prevention and early detection can help you protect your health and the health of your family.

With this mini-dictionary you will learn the meaning of words used by health care providers. Knowing this vocabulary, you can talk to your health care provider about cancer and the other health concerns you might have. Here's to your health!

 A-C 

 D-G 

 H-L 

 M-O 

 P-R 

 S-V 

 Entire List 

Sources

Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 25th Edition. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD, 1990.

Webster's New World Dictionary. Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1994.

What You Need to Know About Cancer. National Cancer Institute, Washington, DC, 1993.

About Cancer. For Your Information. New Readers Press, Syracuse, NY, 1994.

Staying Well. For Your Information. New Readers Press, Syracuse, NY, 1994.

Kaiser Permanente's Medical Glossary. Kaiser Permanente, http://www.kaisersantaclara.org/education/index.html May 7, 1998.

Patients: Information for People with Cancer. The Glossary. National Cancer Institute, http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/dictionary.html December 28, 1998.


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Health Education and Adult Literacy
HEAL: Breast & Cervical Cancer

Developed by World Education
September 2000