Across
- 2. Cells that proliferate throughout life
- 4. Slow-growing and localized without causing much difficulty to the host
- 5. The gross and microscopic degree of differentiation of the tumor.
- 9. Term used for cancer of blood forming cells
- 12. Component comprised by proliferating tumor cells
- 14. A benign tumor which is made of mature but disorganized cells of tissues indigenous to the particular organ
- 15. Proliferate rapidly, spread throughout the body and may eventually cause death of the host.
- 16. Grade IV criterion on Grading of Cancer
- 18. A staging system developed by the UICC
- 20. Other term for ‘Neoplasm’
Down
- 1. Common or collective term used for all malignant tumors
- 3. Extent of spread of the tumor within the patient.
- 6. A mass of tissue formed as a result of abnormal, excessive, uncoordinated, autonomous and purposeless proliferation of cells even after cessation of stimulus for growth which caused it
- 7. Means new growth
- 8. Tumors that are made up of a mixture of various tissue types arising from totipotent cells
- 10. The ectopic islands of normal tissue
- 11. Branch of science dealing with the study of neoplasms or tumors
- 13. The suffix added to the cell type from which the tumor arises.
- 17. What ‘T’ stands for in the TNM Staging of Cancer
- 19. Supportive host-derived non-neoplastic component