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Carcinoma |
Cancer arising from the mesenchymal cells of an organ, skin, or mucous membrane |
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Sarcoma |
Cancer arising from connective tissue or bone (not marrow) |
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Lymphoma |
Cancer arising from lymphatic tissue |
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Leukemia |
Cancer of the blood characterized by a marked increase in the number of white blood cells |
Leukocytes |
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Well differentiated |
Tumors maintain enough characteristic of the cells of origin to be able to identify the organ or part of the body from which it came |
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Poorly differentiated |
Tumor retain even fewer of the characteristics of the cells of origin |
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Undifferentiated |
Tumors have lost most of the characteristics of the cells of origin |
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Grade |
Aggressiveness of the tumor |
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Stage |
Size and extent of SPREAD of the cancer |
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Carcinoma-in-situ |
We don't consider this cancer |
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Signs & symptoms of cancer |
Cough, blood in bowel movements, & lumps in the breast |
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Nonspecific symptoms & signs |
Weight loss, loss of appetite, pain, & fever |
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Adjuvant |
Treatment after surgery |
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Neoadjuvant |
Treatment before surgery |
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Persistent |
Failure to achieve a complete remission |
May have improved, but still there |
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Progressive |
The malignancy became more aggressive after/despite treatment |
Must be at least 1/2 through |
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Recurrent |
Return of a neoplasm after it was in remission |
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Resected |
Excision of a considerable portion of an organ or structure |
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Unresectable |
Surgery was performed, but not all was removed |
Margins +, or realized it was too big or attached to important structures |
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Inoperable |
Surgery cannot be performed |
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Invasive |
Grows or extends from 1 organ to another or structure. |
Extension/direct growth |
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Extent of the tumor |
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Extent of the spread of the lymph nodes |
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Presence of the metastasis |
M |
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Staging system |
What is the TNM system used for? |
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