This unit introduces common medical terms associated with oncology, the study of tumours. Malignant tumours are harmful and are known by the general term cancer. Medical terms associated with the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of different types of cancer are introduced. This unit also contains an animation of normal cell division in the skin followed by the formation and movement of cancer cells (metastasis).

The types of interactive exercise you will use in this section are the:

Dictionary Exercise

Components of medical words and their meanings can be repeatedly flashed on to the screen to aid learning.

Word Exercise

Components learnt in the dictionary exercises can be dragged and dropped to form medical words associated with their meanings.

Spelling Exercise

You type in medical words that fit a definition and then check your score or make corrections

Flash Cards

All the components of words used in this section are flashed onto the screen for you to guess their meaning. Included are prefixes, combining forms of word roots and suffixes.

Dictation Exercise

You spell words from dictation. Each word is pronounced when you press a button, the word is entered by typing into a box and checking your score.

Self-Assessment Exercise

Interactive exercises that check knowledge of: anatomy, meanings of prefixes, combining forms and suffixes, ability to spell medical terms from their meanings and from dictation.