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Study Cancer lecture notes PDF with microbiology definitions and explanation to study What is Cancer?. Study cancer explanation with microbiology terms to review microbiology course for online degree programs.
Cancer Definitions:
A malignant tumor that expands locally by invasion of surrounding tissues and systemically by metastasis.
Prescott's Microbiology 9th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton
Any malignant neoplasm that invades surrounding tissue and can metastasize to other locations.
Foundations in Microbiology by Kathleen Park Talaro, Arthur Talaro
Cancer Notes:
Cancer, also known as malignancy, is the growth of cells in an abnormal fashion. Until now more than hundred types of cancer have been identified and these include skin cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer and may others. Chemotherapy, surgery and radiation are the treatments of cancer.
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