adenocarcinoma | | Abnormal cells, but no actual tumor found. Leukemia and Lymphoma are examples of this. (2words, no space) |
Lobular | | synovial tissue |
Schirrous | | malignant epithelial neoplasms (root) |
rhabdomyo | | meningio |
anaplasia | | colon, glandular epithelial tissue, malignant (2words, no space) |
chondro | | Pathologist determines |
blastoma | | glandular |
fibrous | | placenta epithelial malignant |
Stage | | cell of origin: bile duct cells |
monster | | fat connetive tissue, malignant tumor |
Gross | | cartilaginous benign |
choriocarcinoma | | osteo |
liquidneoplasm | | lymphatic cells |
hamartoma | | lymph vessel, benign |
Sarcoma | | kidney/nephron origin, poorly differentiated, high grade malignant |
Seeding | | cell of origin is cartilage |
meninges | | The route in which ovarian cancer cells reach the peritonel |
leiomyosarcoma | | malignant epithelial that did not start in the tissue it is found in (2words, no space) |
myxo | | neoplasm has firm, gritty consistency, like unripe pear |
Malignant | | malignant mesenchymal neoplasms (root) |
colonicadenocarcinoma | | complete dedifferentiation (descriptive term) |
cervix | | cancer of lymphocytes; always malignant (named wrong) |
metasticcarcinoma | | Poorly demarcated, metastic, rapidly growing |
synovia | | myo |
Desmoplastic | | skeletal muscle |
cholangio | | Clinician determines |
lymphagnioma | | High grade, malignant, thought to arise from embryonic tissues |
hemangio | | gloma tissue, involved in thermo regulation |
lympho | | fibro |
nephroblastoma | | if it ends with ____ it is probably benign |
glomangio | | cystic mass that has glandular cell elements |
cauliflower | | Almost always benign, only tissues that would normally be present in that organ |
adeno | | greatest cancer killer in females worldwide |
melanoma | | filled with fluid, not solid |
carcin | | terato |
pheochromocyto | | smooth muscle |
chorio | | slime like or of extra cellular matrix origin |
leiomyo | | number 1 cancer that kills male and females in the US |
mesothelio | | When you are able to see the edge of a mass that has spreed into surrounding tissue (_____ invasion) |
tumor | | placental origin |
sarc | | finger like |
meningioma | | forms in gland, forms lobule/ glandular tissue |
schwanno | | Always implies cancer |
Benign | | blood vessel |
Hepatocellularcarcinoma | | Well demarcated, noninvasive, slow growing |
teratoma | | schwann cells |
oma | | Made up of all different germ cells in 1 tumor, eptopic, cells don't belong in these tissues |
lumphoma | | Malignant neoplasia of connective tissue |
Grade | | meninge origin, benign neoplasm |
bone | | lymph vessel |
papillo | | melanocyte is cell of origin, never benign, always malignant (mis-named) |
lymphangio | | Malignant tumors look like this vegetable |
anaplastic | | neoplasm has ability to harden tissue around it |
cystadeno | | can effect the pleua, paricardium, or peritineum |
Ductal | | froms in duct |
muscle | | looks like glandular tissue, most common in colon |
Lung | | smooth muscle malignant tumor |
Liposarcoma | | greatest killer in males worldwide (2words, no space) |
Enchondroma | | Chromaffin cells of the adrenal gland involved, lots of colors of cells |
cyst | | solid mass, not hollow in the middle |