tumor growth
Cancer cells multiplying
Tumor growth is the process by which abnormal cells multiply and a tumor increases in size.
The term appears throughout oncology and medical research: The drug successfully slowed tumor growth.
Growth rate varies widely depending on tumor type—some remain stable for years while others double rapidly.
Understanding tumor growth patterns helps determine treatment urgency and prognosis.
- malignantHarmfully invasive, often fatal
- metastasisCancer spreading beyond origin
- cellsBasic biological units
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- oncologyCancer medicine specialty
clinical trial · biopsy · mass · lesion · spreading · stage four · chemotherapy · radiation · fighting cancer · benign · carcinoma · tissue · mutation · diagnosis · staging · invasive · lymph · nodes
- Cancermalignant, carcinoma, metastasis, staging, prognosis
- growthincrease, increasing, expansion, expand, expanding
- oncologycancer, carcinoma, metastasis, malignancy, oncogene
- runaway effectschain reaction, domino effect, snowball effect, runaway effect, feedback loop
- Cancer Biologymalignant cells, metastasis, carcinogenesis, oncogenes, melanoma
- pathologycancer, disease, infection, lesion, lesions
tumor growthapoptosis
Programmed cell death
cell death · growth inhibition · cytoreduction · atrophy · homeostasis
tumor growthhealing
Restoration of health
tissue repair · wound healing · tissue regeneration · scar formation
tumor, tumors, tumorous, growth, growths, grow, grows, grew, grown