stage I melanoma
The earliest invasive stage, in which the melanoma has grown into the skin but nothing suggests it has traveled anywhere.
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206 matchesthoracoscopy
Looking inside the chest cavity through a small opening between the ribs, usually to explain fluid that keeps returning.
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A cancer of the gland behind the breastbone that behaves nothing like the far commoner tumor it was once filed under.
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Subtype governs almost everything about the outlook, so two people given the same diagnosis on paper can face very different diseases.
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Tissue is a group of similar cells and their surrounding material organized together to carry out a shared function within the body.
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A narrowed airway behaves like a reed instrument, and the note it plays says more about tightness than about which disease caused it.
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