Complication
Healthcare
A medical problem that occurs during a disease or after a procedure or treatment. The complication may be caused by the disease, procedure, or treatment or may be unrelated to them.
- — AHRQ Healthcare Research and Quality Glossary retrieved 2014-05-28
Cancer
(kom-plih-KAY-shun) In medicine, a medical problem that occurs during a disease, or after a procedure or treatment. The complication may be caused by the disease, procedure, or treatment or may be unrelated to them.