Health science 2211- Module 2 lecture 3

Benign and malignant tumors can be distinguished based on what 6 things?
- microscopic examination (differentiation and anaplasia)
- rate of growth
- cancer stem cells
- invasion and clonal expansion
- metastasis-in difficult cases
- molecular profiling
cells in a benign tumor usually look like? (2)
- the tissue they're derived from
- cells are well differentiated
cells of malignant tumors show _______________.

little differentiation
what is anaplasia?

malignant tumors that barely resemble the original cells and look like embryonic cells

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Health science 2211- Module 2 lecture 3

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Cancer as a clinical disease

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