| secretory carcinoma | <tumour> Carcinoma of the breast with pale-staining cells showing prominent secretory activity, as seen in pregnancy and lactation, but found mostly in children. Synonym: juvenile carcinoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| nasopharyngeal carcinoma | <oncology, tumour> This carcinoma, although rare in North America, is one of the commonest malignancies in men from Taiwan and southern China. Hearing loss from middle ear effusion (collection of fluid in the middle ear space), a lump in the neck and a raised lesion on the palate are among the most common findings. (27 Sep 1997) |
| noninfiltrating lobular carcinoma | <tumour> Carcinoma of the breast in which small tumour cells fill preexisting acini within lobules, without invading the surrounding stroma. Synonym: lobular carcinoma in situ, lobular neoplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweat gland carcinoma | <tumour> Usually a solitary tumour, nodular and fixed to the skin and underlying structure, having slow growth for long periods followed by rapid growth and dissemination. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ductal carcinoma | <tumour> A carcinoma derived from epithelium of ducts, e.g., in the breast or pancreas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ductal carcinoma in situ | <oncology, tumour> A cancer inside the ducts of breast that has not grown through the wall of the duct into the surrounding tissues. Sometimes referred to as a precancer. Good prognosis is involved with in situ cancers. (09 Oct 1997) |
| inflammatory carcinoma | <tumour> Carcinoma of the breast presenting with oedema, hyperaemia, tenderness, and rapid enlargment of the breast; microscopically, there is extensive invasion of dermal lymphatics by the carcinoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate carcinoma | <tumour> Obsolete term for basosquamous carcinoma (05 Mar 2000) |
| intraductal carcinoma | <tumour> A form of carcinoma derived from the epithelial lining of ducts, especially in the breast, where most carcinoma's arise from ductal epithelium; the neoplastic cells proliferate in irregular papillary projections or masses, filling the lumens, that are solid, cribriform, or centrally necrotic; intraductal carcinoma is a form of carcinoma in situ as it is contained by the ductal basement membrane; when it invades surrounding stroma or metastasizes it is referred to as ductal carcinoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intraepidermal carcinoma | <tumour> Carcinoma in situ of the skin; e.g., Bowen's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intraepithelial carcinoma | Cancer that involves only the cells in which it began and has not spread to other tissues. Lobular carcinoma in situ is found in the lobules of the breast. Ductal carcinoma in situ (also called intraductal carcinoma) arises in the ducts. (16 Dec 1997) |
| invasive carcinoma | <tumour> A neoplasm in which collections of epithelial cells infiltrate or destroy the surrounding tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| occult carcinoma | <tumour> A small carcinoma, either asymptomatic or giving rise to metastases without symptoms due to the primary carcinoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oesophageal carcinoma | <radiology> EtOH, tobacco, achalasia, Plummer-Vinson syndrome, stricture (caustic, radiation), Barrett mucosa (GE reflux, hiatus hernia), tylosis, geographical areas: Iran, China, southern France, Japan, head/neck carcinoma <strong>not</strong> Sprue / coeliac disease (12 Dec 1998) |
| oesophageal carcinoma risk factors | <radiology> P Plummer-Vinson Web, A achalasia, alcohol, B Barrett oesophagus, S stricture, T tylosis, tobacco see: oesophageal carcinoma (12 Dec 1998) |