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A description of a tumor based on how abnormal the cancer cells look under a microscope and how quickly the tumor is likely to grow and spread.
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Answers how the cells look, never how far the disease has traveled, which is why the number is so often quoted alone and misread.
Read definitiongranulocyte
Granulocytes are white blood cells containing microscopic granules of enzymes, including neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils, each specialized for a different immune role.
Read definitionhealthcare provider
One word stretched across a solo therapist and a thousand bed hospital, useful in billing and records precisely because it specifies nothing.
Read definitionheart murmur
Most murmurs are harmless noise from normal blood flow, which is why the character of the sound matters more than its presence.
Read definitionhematuria
Color is a poor guide here, since beets and some medicines redden urine while a serious cause may leave it looking normal.
Read definitionhigh grade
A term used to describe cells that look abnormal under a microscope.
Read definitionhistologic examination
The examination of tissue specimens under a microscope.
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Architecture is the point: how cells sit relative to one another often says more than how any single cell looks.
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The study of diseased cells and tissues using a microscope.
Read definitionHodgkin disease
The older name for a lymphoma that stands apart from every other one, in the cell that defines it and in the way it spreads.
Read definitionHodgkin lymphoma
Painless swelling of a node in the neck is the usual opening, sometimes with drenching night sweats and a fever that comes and goes.
Read definitionimmunohistochemistry
A staining method that uses antibodies to make one chosen protein visible in a slice of tissue, while everything else stays pale.
Read definitionincisional biopsy
A surgical procedure in which a portion of a lump or suspicious area is removed for diagnosis.
Read definitionindirect ophthalmoscopy
An exam of the inside of the back of the eye using a beam of light and a hand-held lens.
Read definitionjuvenile pilocytic astrocytoma
Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma, most often diagnosed in children, forms from star shaped supportive brain cells and typically grows slowly with well defined borders.
Read definitionkeratoacanthoma
This dome shaped skin growth appears within weeks and often resolves untreated, yet it can be nearly indistinguishable from squamous cell carcinoma.
Read definitionKrukenberg tumor
Cancer found in the ovary that started in the stomach, and a sign the original disease has already traveled.
Read definitionlab-on-a-chip
Shrinking a laboratory onto a slide changes the physics as much as the scale, and that is rather the point of it.
Read definitionlaparoscopic prostatectomy
Surgery to remove all or part of the prostate with the aid of a laparoscope.
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