tumour

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cancer
acinic cell carcinoma
acral lentiginous melanoma
adenocarcinoma
adenoma
aggressive
benignancy
benignant
big C
bilateral acoustic neurofibromatosis
bilateral acoustic schwannoma
carcinogen
Hodgkin's lymphoma
inoperable
lymphoma
malignantly
meningioma
metastasis
precancerous
Waldenstrom macroglobulinaemia
Wilms' tumour

Examples from literature

A carcinoma or cancer is a malignant tumor, that is, one that tends to grow worse and to reappear if it apparently is removed. 
A frequent symptom of carcinoma of the uterus is hemorrhage at irregular times after the menopause. 
Glandular carcinoma originates in organs such as the breast, and in the glands of mucous membranes and skin. 
Transition forms between adenoma and carcinoma are also met with in the rectum and large intestine, and these should be treated on the same lines as cancer. 

carcinoma | American Dictionary

carcinoma
noun[ C ]
 medicalus/kɑr·səˈnoʊ·mə/
a lump of tissue that forms on or inside the body; a tumor

Examples of carcinoma

carcinoma
Automated analysis of mammographic densities and breast carcinoma risk.
However, tumour recurrence and progression to chemoresistance is usual and high-grade serous carcinomas account for a disproportionately high percentage of deaths due to ovarian cancer.
Like an aggressive carcinoma, realizability stretches out its tentacles to ever more remote fields: linear logic, complexity theory and rewrite theory have already been infected.
However, it was not sufficient to promote localised invasive carcinoma or metastasis.
Progression to invasive carcinoma is not observed in this model.
Therefore, the presence of bilateral invasive breast carcinomas have not been clearly shown to exert a negative impact on patient survival.
Similar decreases in local tumor control are calculated for treatment protraction and for interruptions in the radiotherapy of carcinoma of the larynx in four centers.
All had been diagnosed with various forms of carcinoma.
No case of biopsy-proven carcinoma-in-situ of the cervix has yet occurred during the follow-up period in the diaphragm entry group.
We focus on the probabilities concerning the length of the tumour in the oesophagus of an arbitrary patient presented with oesophageal carcinoma.
Ovarian carcinoma cells have also shown in vitro formation of tumour-cell-lined channels.
The patient population included solely malignant epithelial ovarian carcinoma.
All were women (although this was not part of the original design) and all had carcinoma.
The study included 708 patients with clinically palpable breast carcinomas and no palpable axillary adenopathy, who underwent lumpectomy (with no sentinel or axillary node dissection).
Rapid screening for psychologic distress in men with prostate carcinoma.
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