tumour|tumours in English

noun

[tu·mour || 'tuːmə(r) /'tju-]

abnormal swelling in any part of the body, growth, lump (alternate spelling for tumor)

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1. The following tumours were reactive: myofibroblastic tumours, gastrointestinal stromal tumour, mesothelioma, adenomatoid tumour, traumatic neuroma, seminoma, seminoma in situ and other testicular tumours, pleomorphic adenoma (one of two tumours positive), and follicular dendritic reticulum cell sarcoma.

2. Tumour Angiogenesis is the growth of new blood vessels that tumours need to grow and this is caused by the release of chemicals by the tumour

3. But if tumour cells spread, a process called metastasis, they can form tumours in vital organs such as the lungs.

4. The second approach is to use lymphocytes that home in on tumours as vehicles for delivering a biological payload to the tumour.

5. Monomorphic tumours are basal cell adenomas, onkocytomas, papillary cystadenolymphomas (Warthin's tumours), sebaceous gland tumours, clear cell tumours and acinic cell tumours.

6. Under 2 600 surgical specimens examinated in the salivary gland register from 1965 to 1974 1 067 tumour cases (41%) were found. 929 of these cases (87%) were epithelial tumours, 89 (8%) non-epithelial tumours (hemangiomas etc.) and 49 (5%) metastases or periglandular tumours. 71,5% of the epithelial tumours could be classified as benign (51,5% pleomorphic adenomas, 20% monomorphic adenomas), 28,5% as malignant (2,5% acinic cell tumours, 6% mucoepidermoid tumours, 20% carcinomas).

7. Chemokines regulate the infiltration of different immune cell subsets into tumours and, as such, these molecules affect tumour immunity and influence therapeutic outcomes in patients.

8. Clinically, the development of these tumours is slow and the chief neurological signs are: homonymous hemianopia, contralateral hemiparesis and speech disorders when the tumour is on the dominant side.

9. Finally, Aspartate levels in primary human tumours negatively correlate with the expression of hypoxia markers, suggesting that tumour hypoxia is sufficient to inhibit ETC and, consequently, Aspartate synthesis in vivo

10. Tumour grading and tumour invasion were of borderline statistical significance.

11. Tumours that are detected...

12. an inoperable brain tumour.

13. The tumour was excised.

14. Cerebrospinal fluid studies have shown that with supratentorial tumours pleocytosis almost certainly indicates a malignant lesion; from this it follows that cerebral tumour should always be included in the differential diagnosis of abacterial meningitis.

15. Physical examination showed exophytic erythematous tumour simulating a basal cell carcinoma or an adnexal tumour.

16. This apparatus scans patients'brains for tumours.

17. Treatment can shrink a tumour.

18. Tumours in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers are more likely to be invasive serous adenocarcinomas and unlikely to be borderline or mucinous tumours than tumours in age-matched controls.

19. In the salivary gland tumours four main categories — corresponding to the international classification of the W.H.O. — can be classified: adenomas, acinic cell tumours, mucoepidermoid tumours and carcinomas.

20. No changes were made for tumours of the anal canal, the gallbladder (excluding the inclusion of tumours of the cystic duct) and tumours of the pancreas and the ampulla of Vater.

21. Choriocarcinoma is a malignant tumour

22. The surgeons irradiated the tumour.

23. Blood vessels develop abnormally in cancer tumours.

24. Blood vessels develop Abnormally in cancer tumours

25. Adenoid cystic carcinomas are rare tumours.