- Benign (bee nine)
A cancer-free tumour.
- Biopsy (by op see)
An operation to remove a small piece of body tissue to check for cancer.
- Blast cell
An immature cell in its earliest stage of development.
- Bleomycin (blee o my sin)
A chemotherapy drug.
- Blood count
Blood test to tell how many of each type of blood cell you have in your blood.
- Bone cancer
Cancer that develops in or around the bone, the most common types to affect teenagers being Osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma.
- Bone marrow
A spongy material found inside our bones that produces all our blood cells.
- Bone marrow transplant
Very high doses of chemo are given to treat certain cancers. The chemo wipes out the person’s bone marrow and so a bone marrow transplant is carried out (using their own marrow or a donor's marrow) to replace the marrow destroyed by the chemo.
- Brain stem
Controls our major body functions such as breathing and swallowing.
