Cancer Notes: Definitions & Explanations PDF | Download eBooks
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.
Keep Learning with Microbiology Notes
What is Associative Nitrogen Fixation?
Associative N fixation (ANF) is a procedure in which dinitrogen gas is transformed to ammonia by microorganisms (bacteria) in spontaneous ...
What is Barotolerant?
Barotolerant are those organisms that can tolerate high pressures. They do not necessarily require these high pressures as they can ...
What are Compatible Solutes?
Compatible solutes or osmoprotectants are small organic molecules of low toxicity with a neutral charge at high concentrations that act ...
What is Antimetabolite?
Antimetabolites are drugs that block the metabolic pathway functions by acting substitutes to the original metabolites during DNA synthesis. These ...
What is Booster?
Booster dose is an additional dose of a vaccine after a prime dose. A booster dose or booster injection is ...
What is Constitutive Gene?
A constitutive gene as opposed to a facultative gene is continually transcribed. While a facultative gene is only prescribed when ...