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- tu·mor || 'tuËmÉ™(r) /'tju- n. abnormal swelling of any part of the body; growth, lump of abnormal tissue serving no physiological purpose (Pathology); haughtiness, bombast (Archaic)
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Grading (tumors) — In pathology, grading is a measure of the cell appearance in tumors and other neoplasms. Some pathology grading systems apply only to malignant neoplasms (cancer); others apply also to benign neoplasms. The neoplastic grading is a measure of cell … Wikipedia
Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors — (RECIST) is a set of published rules that define when cancer patients improve ( respond ), stay the same ( stable ), or worsen ( progression ) during treatments. The criteria were published in February, 2000 by an international collaboration… … Wikipedia
Ewing family of tumors — The Ewing family of tumors is a group of cancerscite journal |author=Iwamoto Y |title=Diagnosis and treatment of Ewing s sarcoma |journal=Jpn. J. Clin. Oncol. |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=79–89 |year=2007 |month=February |pmid=17272319… … Wikipedia
Ewing family of tumors — A group of cancers that includes Ewing tumor of bone (ETB or Ewing sarcoma of bone), extraosseous Ewing (EOE) tumors, primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET or peripheral neuroepithelioma), and Askin tumors (PNET of the chest wall). These tumors… … English dictionary of cancer terms
borderline ovarian tumors — a group of ovarian tumors whose appearance and behavior are between those of adenomas and carcinomas; it includes some Brenner tumors, as well as endometrioid, mucinous borderline, and serous borderline tumors … Medical dictionary
Melanocytic tumors of uncertain malignant potential — (MELTUMP) are melanocytic lesions in the dermis that cannot be classified by morphology as either benign naevi (moles) or malignant melanomas because the mass shows features of both. Several lesion types may be classified as MELTUMPs: these… … Wikipedia
Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors — (RECIST), deutsch etwa Kriterien für die Bewertung des Ansprechens der Behandlung bei soliden Tumoren, ist eine Sammlung von veröffentlichten Regeln, die die Bewertung der Behandlungserfolge (Outcome) von Krebserkrankungen in medizinischen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
cutaneous adnexal tumors — cutaneous appendage tumors adnexal t s … Medical dictionary
