Glossary Terms
Gastrointestinal system
The gastrointestinal system is, essentially, a long tube running through the body that works to digest food and then remove it from the body. This system includes the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, small intestine and large intestine.
Graft vs. host disease
Graft vs. host disease is a disease that may happen after you receive a bone marrow transplant. When someone going through treatment for cancer receives bone marrow from a donor, it is possible that the donor's white cells will attack parts of the receiver's body. The parts of the body commonly affected by GVHD are the skin, stomach and liver.
Gray
A gray is a unit of measure for the dose of radiation therapy given to a particular part of the body. It takes 6 gray to the testicles to cause permanent infertility in a man, and a dose of 2.5 to 7 gray to kill different types of cancer cells.
Gynocologic oncologists
Physicians who treat cancers of the female reproductive organs (i.e. cervix, uterus, ovaries).
Gynecologist
A doctor who specializes in treating problems in a woman's reproductive system.
