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There are three possible results: Positive: Cancer cells are found at the edge of the margin. This may mean that more surgery is needed. Negative: The margins don’t contain cancerous cells ...
Malignant (muh-LIG-nant) refers to cancer cells that can invade and kill nearby tissue and spread to other parts of your body.. Mass is a medical word for a solid group of abnormal cells ...
It affects most people with multiple myeloma. Multiple myeloma: A cancer that forms from plasma cells in your bone marrow. Plasma cells make proteins called antibodies that help the immune system ...
Carcinoma is a cancer that starts in the skin or the tissues that line other organs. Sarcoma is a cancer of connective tissues such as bones, muscles, cartilage, and blood vessels. Leukemia is a ...
TNM staging system. The TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors (TNM) is a globally recognised standard for classifying the anatomical extent of the spread of malignant tumours (cancer). It has gained wide international acceptance for many solid tumor cancers, but is not applicable to leukaemia or tumors of the central nervous system.
Stage 1: Cancer is small and hasn’t spread. It’s also known as localized. Stage 2: Cancer has grown or may have pushed into surrounding tissue, or local spread. Stage 3: Cancer is larger and ...
Cancer remission is when the signs and symptoms of cancer have lessened or are undetectable. Being in remission is not the same as being cancer free. In blood-related cancers like leukemia, this ...
The Gleason system uses the numbers 1 to 5 to grade the most common (primary) and second most common (secondary) patterns of cells found in a tissue sample. Grade 1. The cells look very much like ...