| cancer cell |
a cell that is part of a malignant tumor
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| cancer cell |
Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell division and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue (invasion) or by migration of cells to distant sites (metastasis). This unregulated growth is caused by a series of acquired or inherited mutations to DNA within cells, damaging genetic information that define the cell functions and removing normal control of cell division. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_cell
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| cancer cell |
a cell that divides and reproduces abnormally and has the potential to spread throughout the body, crowding out normal cells and tissue.
Ãâó: www.cancer.org/docroot/GRY/GRY_0.asp
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| cancer cell |
A cell present in neoplasm having characteristics that differentiate it from normal tissue cells, such as the degree of anaplasia, irregularity in shape, indistinctness of cell outline, nuclear size, changes in the structure of nucleus and cytoplasm, increased number of mitoses (cell division) and the ability to metastasize.
Ãâó: www.winabc.org/breast-cancer-basics/glossary-of-te...
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