Across
- 4. Term that refers to normal mature tissue located in an abnormal location
- 5. The cellular process directly inhibited by the loss of cadherins in tumor cells during metastasis
- 8. Assessed by a clinician
- 10. The term for the extensive fibrous reaction stimulated by tumor cells that increase the production of collagen
- 11. ____Spread by which tumor cells spread via blood vessels
- 12. Process by which the immune system identifies and kills microbially infected cells or foreign cells
- 13. _____antigens are newly expressed molecules on tumor cells
- 15. Suffix for a malignant epithelial tumor
- 19. Canine _____ Venereal tumor is an example of what type of tumor
- 21. Derived from all three embryonic germ layers
- 23. _____ immunity that is considered to mount the most effective antitumor defenses
- 25. A nonneoplastic supporting structure of a tumor
Down
- 1. The development of lymphatic vasculature in tumors
- 2. The process by which the immune system recognizes and eliminates tumor cells
- 3. _____antigens are overexpressed self-antigens
- 6. An example of choristoma
- 7. Process of “new growth” in which normal cells undergo irreversible genetic changes, which render them unresponsive to ordinary controls on growth exerted from within the “transformed” cell or by surrounding “normal” cells
- 9. Assessed by a pathologist
- 14. Embryonic Antigens normally not expressed in adult tissue
- 16. ____ inflammatory conditions that increase the risk for cancer in affected organs
- 17. ____Immunotherapy provides the patient with mature effector cells or antibodies that recognize and destroy tumors
- 18. Mesenchymal tumors originate from this layer
- 20. In the TNM staging system, what is the indication for no distant metastasis
- 22. Suffix for a benign mesenchymal tumor
- 24. this ______ irreversible genetic change in a normal cell
