Treatment or prevention of disease (such as an autoimmune disorder, allergy, or cancer) that involves the stimulation, enhancement, suppression, or desensitization of the immune system.

An agent that can suppress or prevent the immune response. These medicines are used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ and to treat autoimmune diseases such as psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn's disease. Some treatments for cancer act as in the same manner.

Any of a class of proteins present in the serum and cells of the immune system, that function as antibodies.

This type of disorder makes it easier for you to catch viruses and bacterial infections. These disorders are either congenital or acquired.

This agent interferes with your body's ability to fight the organisms that cause disease. This is a blood and fluid borne pathogen that is a sexually transmitted infection but can be transmitted through bllod transfusions and other means. Can cause AIDS.

This is a cancer that develops in the lymph system (lymphoma), part of the body's immune system. Because there is lymph tissue in many areas of the body, This disease can start in almost any part of the body.

Also known as shingles, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a localized area. Typically the rash occurs in a single, wide stripe either on the left or right side of the body or face.

Relating to or involving the rupture or destruction of red blood cells.

Invasive cancer that begins growing in a milk duct and has invaded the fibrous or fatty tissue of the breast outside of the duct. IDC is the most common form of breast cancer, representing 80 percent of all breast cancer diagnoses.

A protein released by animal cells, usually in response to the entry of a virus, that has the property of inhibiting virus replication.

Inflammation of the lymph nodes

Also called adenopathy is disease of the lymph nodes, in which they are abnormal in size, number, or consistency. An inflammatory type (the most common type), producing swollen or enlarged lymph nodes.

These are malformations of the lymphatic system characterized by lesions that are thin-walled cysts; these cysts can be macroscopic, as in a cystic hygroma, or microscopic.

A condition of localized fluid retention and tissue swelling caused by a compromised lymphatic system, which normally returns interstitial fluid to the bloodstream.

A form of small leukocyte (white blood cell) with a single round nucleus, occurring especially in the lymphatic system.

A tumor of the lymphoid tissue. The major types are Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's (NHL). NHL can in turn be divided into low-grade, intermediate-grade, high-grade, and miscellaneous types of this disorder.

(sentinel lymph node mapping) is an imaging technique used to identify the lymph drainage basin, determine the number of sentinel nodes, differentiate sentinel nodes from subsequent nodes, locate the sentinel node in an unexpected location, and mark the sentinel node over the skin for biopsy.

A large phagocytic cell found in stationary form in the tissues or as a mobile white blood cell, especially at sites of infection.