Vocab 1
Replication of cells
What is mitosis?
Spread of malignant tumor to a secondary site
What is metastasis?
Carcin/o
What is cancer/cancerous?
-suppression
What is to stop?
CA
What is cancer?
New growth
What is a neoplasm?
Recurrence of tumor after treatment
What is relapse?
Cauter/o
What is burn/heat?
Neo-
What is new?
NED
What is no evidence of disease?
Treatment with drugs/chemicals
What is chemotherapy?
Patients and family members tested to see if they have inherited a cancer causing gene
What is genetic testing/screening?
Onc/o
What is beyond or change?
PSA
What is prostate-specific antigen?
Tumor made up of cells of epithelial origin
What is a carcinoma?
Noncancerous growth (neoplasm)
What is a benign tumor?
Sarc/o
What is flesh/connective tissue?
-genesis
What is formation?
TNM
What is tumor-node-metastasis?
Change in DNA of a cell
What is mutation?
Extending beyond normal tissue boundaries into adjacent tissues
What is infiltrative?
-blastoma
What is immature tumor?
BMT
What is bone marrow transplantation?