A+D * - Anxiety and depression (measure)
ACMA - Australian Communications and Media Authority (formerly ACA)
ARPANSA - Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
ArcDB - Archive database
ARTG - Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods
ATP - Adenosine 5-triphosphate
BSO - Buthionine Sulphoximine
Ca - Cancer
CAM - Complementary and Alternative Medicine
CHIC - Confidentiality of Health Information Committee
CHT - Chemotherapy
CMHP - Cumene Hydroperoxide
DIT - Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland)
DNA - Deoxyribonucleic acid
EBM - Evidence-based medicine
EM - Electromagnetic
EMF - Electromagnetic field
FDA - Food and Drug Authority (U.S.A.)
GMI - Glycolytic Metabolic Inhibitor (Glycolytic blocking agent)
GMI/UHF - Current treatment modality (GMI followed by UHF)
Glc - Glucose
GSH - Reduced Glutathione
GSSG - Oxidised Glutathione
HREC - Health Research Ethics Committee
HRQOL - Health-related quality of life
ICNIRP - International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection
IMD - Intermodulation distortion
Instr * - (Data collection) Instruments
IV - Intravenous
mtDNA - Mitochondrial DNA
LINAC - Linear accelerator
NCI - National Cancer Institute (U.S.A.)
NHMRC - National Health and Medical Research Council
NCCAM - National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (U.S.A.)
OCCAM - Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Part of NCI)
PICC - Peripherally inserted central catheter
Pro/S * - Prospective epidemiological study (post 1 Jan 2006)
Pro/S Pilot * - Prospective study pilot (first months of Pro/S)
QoL - Quality of life (measure)
RANZCR - Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Retro/S * - Clinical audit of Dr Holt's files (retrospective study)
RCT - Randomised control trial
RF - Radio-frequency
RTRI - Radiowave Therapy Research Institute
RW - Radiowave
RWT * - Radiowave therapy (GMI + 434 MHz UHF, unless otherwise specified)
UHF/XRT - Radiowave therapy followed by immediate radiotherapy (y rays)
SAR - Specific absorption rate
SMCO - S-Methyl-L-Cysteine Sulphoxide
Surg - Surgery
t-BuOOH - Tertiary (or tert-) Butyl-Hydroperoxide
TGA - Therapeutic Goods Administration
COA - Clinical outcomes analysis (phase)
TXCS - Radiowave transmitter control software
Tx - (RF) Transmitter / treatment
UHF - Ultra-high frequency
WACR - Western Australian Cancer Registry
XRT * - Radiotherapy (radiation therapy) using, for example, a LINAC
Note: the abbreviations followed by an asterisk are the author’s own choice; medical terms are often abbreviated in a variety of ways and it will be helpful to us if we use a consistent set of abbreviations throughout the Institute.