| cancerophobia |
The English suffix -phobia is technically used to describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder, and commonly misused to describe hatred of a particular thing or subject. Everyday language has misused the use of this suffix as a mild or irrational fear with no serious substance; however, its origin is from areas of psychiatry which study serious phobias which disable a person's life. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancerophobia
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| cancer |
Diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth of cells that tend to invade surrounding tissue and spread to distant body sites.
Ãâó: www.stjude.org/leukemia/0,2530,422_2049_4332,00.ht...
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| cancer |
Uncontrolled growth of the cells of a tissue or an organ in a multicellular organism. cf oncogenesis.
Ãâó: www.fao.org/docrep/003/X3910E/X3910E06.htm
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| cancer |
The general term for an illness characterized by abnormal growth of cells that form malignant tumors. Cancer can develop in any organ of the body.
Ãâó: www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/DG/00022.html
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| cancer registry |
A database of cancer cases including information about when they occurred, the type of cancer, and other information.
Ãâó: www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/glossary.htm
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