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Your search for: cancerous AND tumors


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Books on: cancerous tumors

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Journal Articles on: cancerous tumors

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Encyclopedia Articles on: cancerous tumors

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    Cancer , in Medicine
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...mechanisms that limit cell growth. Unlike benign tumors, malignant tumors consist of undifferentiated, or unspecialized, cells that show...eventually killing normal cells by nutritional deprivation. Cancerous tissue can also cause secondary effects, in which the expanding...
     
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    Breast Cancer
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...BRCA1 normally acts to prevent tumors by repairing damage to the...can proliferate, or become cancerous. The defective gene can be...simple excision of only the cancerous tumor) or mastectomy (excision...recurrence of hormonally sensitive tumors. Bone marrow transplantation...
     
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    Uterus
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...and endometriosis , as well as benign or malignant tumors. Benign tumors may be removed without damage to the uterus, although in cases where the tissue is found to be cancerous, the entire uterus and cervix may have to be removed in a procedure...
     
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    Virus
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...example, certain of the viruses that can transform cells into a cancerous state (see cancer ) are retroviruses; their genetic material...forms of cancer in humans, and many have been shown to cause tumors in animals. Other viruses that infect humans cause measles...
     


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