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What is a uncontrolled division of cells?
A cancerous tumor.
What is the medical term meaning lump of cancerous cells?
A carcinoma is a cancerous tumor.
What is the technical term for a lump of cancerous cells?
It is called as malignant tumor.
How do you tell when cells are cancerous?
Cancerous cells exhibit uncontrolled and inappropriate mitosis. Cancerous cells will often exhibit changed morphology and gene expression profiles, often assuming the shape and gene expression of more immature or more stem-like cells (a process termed de-differentiation). Cancerous cells often exhibit unusual karyotypes. Clinically, the precise identification of a cancerous cell can be difficult and will vary tissue to tissue. Another consideration is that for at least some cancers it is theorized that only a small proportion of cells within a tumor are actively cancerous. These cells are referred to as cancer stem cells. It is theorized that in some cases only a comparatively few cells are genuinely tumor-forming (i.e. uncontrollably dividing) and generating large growths of non-tumor forming cells of the visible tumor. Identifiying these actively tumor-forming cells remains a challenge in oncology.
What is the word for procedure to remove a small piece of tissue from an ulcer or polyp mass or tumor to look for abnormal or cancerous cells?
biopsy
What is a common term or cancerous cells that have spread in the body?
Malignant tumor
What is common term for cancerous cells that have spread in the body?
malignant tumor
What common term for cancerous cells that have spread in the body?
malignant tumor
What is a dense mass of abnormal cells called?
A mass of abnormal cells is a tumor. Sometimes this is cancer and sometimes not.
What are cells that are not cancerous and have no affect on health called?
When a doctor does a biopsy on a suspicious lump, sometimes she discovers it is a "benign tumor" -- the cells are benign, that is, they are not cancerous and have no effect on health.
When cells are not responding to normal controls over growth and division they form tissue mass known as?
Cancer or tumor .
Cancerous tumor cells can be treated by high energy or?
Gamma rays, X-rays:
