Hi Suzi,
The short answer to your question is: no. There is no list. You would be better off to ask what it is that you are confused about…but….I'll give it a go….
NED – no evidence of disease
NEAD – no evidence of active disease (a rather new acronym in melanoma world)
Mets – metastatic disease
SLN – sentinel lymph node (the node most proximal to the lesion)
WLE – wide local excision (the area of tissue to remove around a lesion to provide standardized accepted clear margins)
CLND – complete lymph node dissection (removal of all nodes in local area)
SRS – stereotactic radio surgery (radiation beamed in to one area from a variety of vantage points so surrounding tissue has minimal damage)
WBR – whole brain radiation
Immunotherapy – treatment that stimulates the immune system to attack tumors (types below)
Ipi – ipilimumab/yervoy – anti-CTLA 4 immunotherapy
Anti-PD-1 – nivo = nivolumab/opdivo or pembro = pembrolizumab/keytruda
ifn – interferon
Targeted therapy – therapy aimed at a specific variation in a tumor
BRAF or NRAS or CKIT ….some labels for different variations in tumors
BRAF i – BRAF inhibitors – meds for folks with those mutations
MEK – another place to block tumor metabolism, now found to make BRAFi work better, last longer and with fewer side effects and so are most often prescribed with BRAF inhibitors.
PR – partial response
CR – complete response
SD – stable diseae
ORR – overall response rate
DFS – disease free survivial
PFS – progression free survivial
OS – overall survival
DLT – dose limiting toxicity
AE – adverse event
Ir AE – immune related adverse event
WTF – whiskey tango foxtrot – you gotta have a sense of humor!
(Folks…..if you like this…please refer folks back to this cause…idhts (I don't have the strength!) To type this again!
Hope this helps. Wishing you all my best. Celeste
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