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whats a tumor?

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Tumor definition: Tumors are growths of tissue - like fat or epithelial lining cells that grow uncontrollably and can be hadmless if benign or dangerous if malignant like a colon or breast cancer. Your doctor will perform a biopsy and send the tissue to a pathologist who can diagnose the tumor and recommend curative or palliative follow up.

Question 2

what's a sudo tumor?

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Pseudotumor cerebri : From the mayo clinic
pseudotumor cerebri (soo-doh-too-mur ser-uh-bry) occurs when the pressure inside your skull (intracranial pressure) increases for no obvious reason. Symptoms mimic those of a brain tumor, but no tumor is present. Pseudotumor cerebri can occur in children and adults, but it's most common in obese women of childbearing age.

Question 3

what solid tumor?

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Distinction : Between "liquid tumors", leukemia and lymphoma, which were where all of the early successes with chemotherapy were seen, and all the others were solid, as a rock, and do not melt into "remission" but can "respond" to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and most of all surgery.

Question 4

what is a fatty tumor?

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Lipoma - fat cells: A fatty tumor, or lipoma, as it is commonly known in the medical field, is usually a benign (harmless) growth of fat cells and they can occur all throughout the body, on the back, on the skin, under the arms.  If there is a rapid change in size, and pain, or skin changes like discoloration, or bleeding, it should be evaluated by a doctor.

Question 5

what is a desmoid tumor?

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Soft tissue tumor: A desmoid is a rare soft-tissue tumor that looks like scar tissue.  Desmoids do not spread throughout the body like other types of tumor, and aren't really considered "cancerous".  They are lumps that continue to grow in one place, destroying the tissue around them.  They can occur inside or outside the body.  Go to www.Dtrf.Org for more information.

Question 6

what is tumor immunology?

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See below: Tumors are made of cells that have gone bad and started to grow and replicate regardless of the cells around them.  Each tumor as it gets more and more abhorrent expresses a variety of proteins.  These proteins can be detected with antibodies and quantitated.  It is complex.

Question 7

what causes a fatty tumor?

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Unknown: I am not aware of the cause of benign fatty tumors called lipoma. They can run in families but most often they are just present with no known cause.

Question 8

is wilm's tumor hereditary?

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Yes: It can be.  There are certain syndromes  (beckwith-wiedeman, wagr, and denys-drash) that are associated with a genetic abnormality that causes wilms tumor.  The direct hereditary risk is slightly higher but not clea.R.

Question 9

can you treat wilm's tumor?

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Yes: Treatment efficacy has improved over the years.

Question 10

what is an epidermoid tumor?

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It is a type of Canc: Cancer cells can form glands or be flat epithelium, depending on which organ the cancer arises in. Squamous epithelium lines the mouth, throat and food pipe as well as Lung bronchi. Cancers arising in these types are often called Epidermoid or squamous cell -Cancer.

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