Glossary
Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: rapidly progressing cancer that affects bone marrow and white blood cells
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia: rapidly progressing cancer that affects the bone marrow and all blood cells except white blood cells
Apoptosis: programmed cell death that is identified by mitochondrial breakdown pattern and chromatin degradation
Basal Cell Carcinoma: a type of skin cancer that becomes malignant slowly
Benign: condition in which the tumour that does not spread to distant sites from its origin
Biopsy: procedure that extracts a small portion of tissue from an organ for microscopic examination
Blastoma: cancer that forms in the precursor cells
Bone Marrow Transplant: Transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells derived from ...
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