NEOPLASM v/s TUMOR

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The word cancer or growth comes from the Latin word for expanding, which is one of the cardinal indications of aggravation. The word initially alluded to any type of expanding, neoplastic or not. In current English, cancer is utilized as an equivalent for neoplasm (a strong or liquid filled cystic injury that could possibly be framed by a strange development of neoplastic cells) that seems extended in size.Some neoplasms don't shape a growth - these remember leukemia and most types of carcinoma for situ. Growth is additionally not inseparable from disease. While disease is by definition dangerous, a cancer can be harmless, precancerous, or threatening.

The terms mass and knob are frequently utilized equivalently with cancer. As a rule, in any case, the term cancer is utilized conventionally, without reference to the actual size of the lesion. More explicitly, the term mass is frequently utilized when the sore has a maximal breadth of something like 20 millimeters (mm) in most noteworthy heading, while the term knob is typically utilized when the size of the injury is under 20 mm in its most noteworthy aspect (25.4 mm = 1 inch).