| carcinogen |
A cancer-causing agent.
Ãâó: www.lrb.usace.army.mil/fusrap/glossary-cd.htm
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| carcinogenicity |
A substance, usually a chemical, that induces cancer.
Ãâó: omegapharmaceuticals.com/cm4_glossary.asp
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| carcinogenesis |
The generation of cancer from normal cells, correctly the formation of a carcinoma from epithelial cells, but often used synonymously with transformation, tumorigenesis.
Ãâó: www.lactospore.com/glossary.htm
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| carcinoma |
A subtype of cancer that develops from tissues covering or lining organs or glands of the body, such as skin, colon, lung, or breast. Most of the cancers are carcinomas. Some cancers that arise from connective tissues like bone are called sarcomas. Cancer arising from the white blood cells are called leukemia.
Ãâó: medicineworld.org/cancer/descriptions.html
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| carcinoma in situ |
Very early stage or stage 0 of breast cancer, where the cancer cells are still surrounded by a membrane, and have not started invading the surrounding tissue.
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