Word: tumorous
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This fundamental instability may help explain why patients suffering from hereditary colon cancer seem to respond better to treatment than those whose disease arises in other ways. Apparently their tumor cells are already so heavily damaged that the malignant tissue is actually more susceptible to chemotherapy and radiation than other types of cancer cells...
...cancel a commitment to address the University of Texas at Austin, speaking for half an hour without notes and with uncharacteristic emotion. She cited the observations of Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater as he lay dying from a brain tumor at age 40: "My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me -- a little heart, a lot of brotherhood . . . And to see that we must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul." She posed the questions...
Scientists are working to fine-tune one method, known as fine needle aspiration biopsy, in which surgeons are guided to a tumor detectable only by mammogram...
...Once a tumor has been identified as malignant and likely to spread, there are several routes of treatment available, according to Hayes...
Chemotherapy and radiation treatment are both widely used to attempt to destroy the tumor without surgery. Lumpectomy or mastectomy are alternative surgical methods to remove an advanced tumor...