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| Question | Answer |
| antineoplastic | prevent the development of neoplastic cells |
| benign | a nonmalignant |
| biopsy | a piece of tissue that is removed for examinationor diagnoiss |
| cancer | general term to describe malignant neoplasms |
| carcinogen | substtance or chemical that can increase developing cancer |
| chemotherapy | slow the progress of the disease or kill the cell |
| dna | complex bases for genetic continuance |
| invasive | a tumor or mass move into nearby tissues or organs or both |
| leukemia | arked by malignancy of the blood-forming results in the circulation of abnormal blood cells |
| lymphoma | malignant disorder of lymphoid tissue |
| malignant | abnormal cell growth that is often fatal |
| sarcoma | neoplastic growth arising from connective tissue |
| remission | may be permanent or temporary |
| oncogene | retrovirus that causes a mutation and may produce cancer |
| neoplasm | an abnormal tissue growth |
| mutation | unexpected change in the molecular structure |
| melanoma | pigmented cells of the skin |
| morphology | appearance of an organism, such as its size, shape, and charactertists |
| metastasis | movement or spread of cancerous cells in distant area |
| mitosis | creates two identical daughter cells from the parent cell |
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