Cancer Vocab Flashcards
Describes branched or exophytic (outward growing) benign tumor of squamous epithelium
Papilloma
Benign tumor resembling cartilage precursor cells
Chondroblastoma
Benign tumor arising from germ cells with derivatives of all 3 germ cell layers
Teratoma
Localized, disordered, differentiated cells (normal tissue but disordered)
Hamartoma
Ectopic islands of normal tissue, such as nodules of splenic tissue in the peritoneal cavity or pancreatic tissue in the intestinal wall
Choristoma
Malignant liver cancer
Hepatoma
Malignant skin cancer
Melanoma
Malignant cancer of the testis
Seminoma
Malignant, lymphoproliferative tumor
Lymphoma
Malignant proliferation of leukocytes
Leukemia
Benign tumor completely located in the bone
Enchondroma
Description for frond-like structures
Papillary
Description for soft, cellular tumor with little connective tissue stroma
Medullary
2 descriptions for a dense fibrous stroma around the tumor
Scirrhous or desmoplastic
Malignant tumor with abundant mucus secretions, in which islands of tumor cells float
Colloid carcinoma
Intraductal carcinoma with necrotic material expressing from the ducts
Comedocarcinoma
Benign, reactive proliferation of soft tissue connective cells, often associated with trauma
Nodular fasciitis
2 terms referring to the lack of differentiated features in a cancer cell
Anaplasia or cellular atypia
Variation in the size and shape of cells and nuclei
Pleomorphism