Word: tumorous
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...spring, his family had discovered that his mother had a malignant brain tumor (she died two years ago). Because he anticipated having to return often to California to see her and because he wanted to have summers free to stay at home, he decided not to renew his participation in ROTC. And, he says, "Regardless of the political issues involved, another reason was I didn't really want to commit to the military. It wasn't really what I wanted to be tied down to after college...
Another important result, according to Leder, was that the tumor was only present in a certain part of the animal's breast...
...Since the tumor is the descendant of a single cell, only one cell, therefore, has changed enough to develop cancer," he says. This meant that some other cancer-causing event had taken place in that cell...
More than any other malignancy, cancer of the prostate has a reputation for stealth. While 122,000 American men were diagnosed with the disease last year -- making it the leading cancer among men -- 70% of those tumors had already managed to spread beyond the gland and into the rest of the body without being detected. Frustrated surgeons have long hoped for a test that could pick up more of these cancers before they become inoperable. Now they may have got their wish. Researchers reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine that a new method could potentially spot...
...often fail to detect smaller cancers and those that originate on the front of the gland. The method is also subjective. One expert remarked that all he can tell his medical students is that the gland feels "like the soft skin at the base of the thumb" while a tumor feels "like a knuckle." Concluded Dr. William Cooner, a PSA expert at the University of South Alabama: "The rectal examination has served us very poorly." Several alternatives have been tried over the years, the most recent being an ultrasound probe. Although this proved somewhat effective and is now used...