malignant cells
Invasive bodily invaders
Malignant cells are cancerous cells that grow uncontrollably and can invade surrounding tissue or spread to other parts of the body.
The term distinguishes dangerous, aggressive growths from benign ones, which stay localized and don't metastasize: The biopsy revealed malignant cells in the lymph nodes.
- tumorAbnormal tissue mass
- massQuantity of matter
- growthIncrease in size
- metastasisCancer spreading beyond origin
- spreadTo distribute widely
neoplasm · oncology · carcinoma · chemotherapy · cancer diagnosis · early detection · angiogenesis · lump · abnormal growth · cell division · out of control · mutation · pathology · cachexia · staging · cluster · deadly · terminal diagnosis
- Cancer Biologymetastasis, carcinogenesis, tumor growth, oncogenes, melanoma
- cytologycytology, Pap test, cell division, cytoplasm, chromosome
- pathologycancer, disease, infection, tumor, lesion
- abnormal cellsprecancerous cells
- brain tumorsglioblastoma, brain tumor, glioma, meningioma, brain cancer
- OncovirusesHPV, HCV, oncovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, papillomavirus
tumor behavior
malignant cellsbenign cells
Non-malignant biological units
benign tumor · benign growth · adenoma · lipoma · fibroma