RT Book, Section
A1 Clark, Jeffrey W.
A1 Longo, Dan L.
A2 Kasper, Dennis
A2 Fauci, Anthony
A2 Hauser, Stephen
A2 Longo, Dan
A2 Jameson, J. Larry
A2 Loscalzo, Joseph
SR Print(0)
ID 1120791927
T1 Cancer Cell Biology
T2 Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 19e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071802154
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1120791927
RD 2021/04/16
AB Cancers  are  characterized  by  unregulated  cell  division,  avoidance  of  cell  death,  tissue  invasion,  and  the  ability  to  metastasize.  A  neoplasm  is  benign  when  it  grows  in  an  unregulated  fashion  without  tissue  invasion.  The  presence  of  unregulated  growth  and  tissue  invasion  is  characteristic  of  malignant  neoplasms.  Cancers  are  named  based  on  their  origin:  those  derived  from  epithelial  tissue  are  called  carcinomas,  those  derived  from  mesenchymal  tissues  are  sarcomas,  and  those  derived  from  hematopoietic  tissue  are  leukemias,  lymphomas,  and  plasma  cell  dyscrasias  (including  multiple  myeloma).