NOTE : More Abbreviations can be found at my old google site for Cancer
AAAS – American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAI – American Association of Immunologists
ABS – American Brachytherapy Society
ACS – American Cancer Society
ACTREC – Advanced Centre for Training Research & Education in Cancer
ACOG – American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
AEH – Atypical Endometrial Hyperplasia
AIIMS – All India Institute of Medical Sciences
ASCO- American Society for Clinical Oncology
ASTRO – American Society for Radiation Oncology
BMI – Body mass Index
BRM -Biological Response Modifiers
CA-125 – Cancer Antigen 125
CAR – Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy
CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CRC – Colorectal Cancer
CRT – Chemoradiotherapy
CSS – Cancer Specific Survival
CT – Computed Tomography
CT – Chemotherapy
CTLA-4 : Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Associated Protein- 4
DFS – Disease Free Survival
DMR – Distant Metastasis Rate
EBRT – External Beam Radiation Therapy
EC – Endometrial Cancer
EEC – Endometrioid Endometrial Cancer
EORTC – European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer
ESGO – European Society for Gynecological Oncology
ESMO – European Society for medical oncology
ESTRO – European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology
FDA – Food and Drug Administration
FDG – Fluorodeoxyglucose (cf- PET)
FIGO – International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
FFS – Failure Free Survival
G-CSF : Granulcyte Colony Stimulating Factors
GOG – Gynecology Oncology Group
HDR – High Dose Rate (Brachytherapy)
H&E – Hematoxylin and Eosin
HLA – Human Leukocyte Antigens
HNPCC – hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (Now referred as Lynch Syndrome)
HREC – High Risk Endometrial Cancer
HPV – Human Papilloma Virus
IARC – International Agency for Research on Cancer
ICRU – International Commission on Radiation Units & Measurements
IHC – Immunohistochemistry
ILs – Interleukins
IMA – Inferior mesenteric Artery ( cf- paraaortic lymph nodes)
IMRT – Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy
IORT – Intraoperative Radiation Therapy
ITC – Isolated Tumor Cells
IUS – Intrauterine Systems
LRR – Local Recurrence Rates
LN – Lymph Nodes
LS – Lynch Syndrome (earlier referred as HNPCC)
LVI – Lymphovascular invasion
mAb – Monoclonal antibody मोनोक्लोनल एंटीबॉडी
MMMT – Uterine mixed malignant mullerian tumors
MMR – Mismatch Repair (genes)
MRI – Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MSI – Microsatellite Instability
MD Anderson Cancer Centre
MSKCC – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre
MVA – Multivariate Analysis
NCCN – National Comprehensive Cancer Network
NCI – National Cancer Institute
NIH – National Institutes of Health
NK Cells – Natural Killer Cells
NLM – US National Library of Medicine
OR – Odds Ratio
OS – Overall Survival
PCOS – PolyCystic Ovarian Syndome
PD-1 : Programmed Cell Death Protein 1
PDL-1 : PD-1 Ligand 1
PET-CT : Positron Emission Tomography – Computed Tomography
(PL) EC – Pelvis Limited Endometrial Cancer
PFS – Progression Free Survival
POLE – DNA Polymerase epsilon catalytic subunit (ultramutated in some EC)
PORTEC-3 : Postoperative Radiation Therapy for Endometrial Cancer Phase III Trial
RCT – Randomized Controlled Trials
RECIST – Response evaluation criteria in solid tumors
rem – Roentgen Equivalent Man
RFS – Relapse Free Survival
RT – Radiotherapy
SEER – Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results
SERM – Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators
SGO – Society of Gynecological Oncology
SNMMI – Society of Nuclear medicine and Molecular Imaging
Sv – Sievert
T2DM – Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
TARGIT – TARGetted Intraoperative radioTherapy
TMC – Tata Memorial Centre
TCGA – The Cancer Genome Atlas
UPSC – Uterine Papillary Serous Carcinoma