EORTC	European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer
Breslow thickness	Measuring of the depth of penetration of a melanoma into the skin in mm
Dukes	Staging score for Colorectal cancer
WHO	World Health Organization
RECIST	Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors: a set of published rules that define when malignant tumours respond ("respond"), stay the same ("stable") or worsen ("progression") during treatments
OS	Overall survival: denotes the chances of staying alive for a group of individuals suffering from a cancer. It denotes the percentage of individuals in the group who are likely to be alive after a particular duration of time
DFS	Disease‐free survival: denotes the chances of staying free of disease after a particular treatment for a group of individuals suffering from a cancer. It is the percentage of individuals in the group who are likely to be free of disease after a specified duration of time.
pTE	Purified extracts from animal thymus glands containing peptide mixtures
sTP	Synthetically produced single thymic peptides.