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Fanconi's
Anemia: A rare, inherited form of aplastic
anemia. Patients with this disease are very sensitive to
radiation and chemotherapy drugs, and a less intense
pre-transplant conditioning is used. (See Aplastic
Anemia.)
Fertility: The ability to
produce children.
Filgrastim: The generic name for a growth factor
produced by recombinant DNA technology that occurs naturally
in humans and stimulates production of white blood cells
called granulocytes. Filgrastim is also known by the trade
name, Neupogen, or as G-CSF (granulocyte-colony
stimulating factor).
Fine Needle
Aspiration: After local anesthesia has been
administered, a small diameter needle is inserted through the
skin to obtain a small sample of tissue for evaluation.
Five-Year
Survival: A measurement of the effect of
cancer over a five-year period of time. Survival rates include
persons who survive five years after diagnosis, whether in
remission, disease-free, or under treatment.
Fluoroscopy: An x-ray procedure that makes it
possible to see internal organs in motion.
Formal
Search: The stage in a search for a matched
unrelated stem cell donor when our Search Coordinator requests
blood samples on one or more potential donors for confirmatory
typing.
Fractionated Radiation
Therapy: Dividing the total dose
of radiation into smaller equal doses which are given over a
period of days. This generally reduces the toxicity of the
treatment for normal tissues.
Frozen
Section: Tissue which is removed by a surgeon,
quick frozen, cut into thin sections and stained. The tissue
is then examined under a microscope by a pathologist to
determine if it is benign or malignant.
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