Glossary for Anal Cancer

• AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections: A term given to HIV patients who have a low CD4 count (below 200) which means that they have low levels of a type of immune cell called T-cells. AIDS patients tend to develop opportunistic infections and cancers. Opportunistic infections are infections that would not normally affect a person with a healthy immune system. The HIV virus is a virus that attacks the body's immune system.
• Abdominal pain: A condition which is characterized by the sensation of pain that is located in the abdomen
• Altered bowel habit:
• Anal conditions: Conditions that affect the anus
• Anorectal disorders: Conditions that affect the anorectum
• Bowen's disease: Intraepiderman form of squamous cell skin cancer cause by sun damage to skin.
• Cancer: Abnormal overgrowth of body cells.
• Death: The cessation of life
• Gastrointestinal bleeding: Internal bleeding in the digestive tract
• Hematochezia: is the passage of bright red, bloody stools from the rectum
• Human Papillomavirus: Very common sexually transmitted disease causing genital warts and associated with certain cancers.
• Metastatic cancer: Any cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.
• Proctalgia: Any type of rectal pain
• Tenesmus: feeling of incomplete evacuation of bowel
• Weight loss: Loss of body weight.

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