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Tumour or neoplasm

Abnormal mass, can be benign or malignant

Cancer
(malignant
tumour)
Tumour that
can
metastasis

Types of cancer

a-solid -carcinoma e.g. lung, colon, breast cancer

-sarcoma

e.g. bone, muscleb-

hematological

malignancies

-lymphomas e.g. Hodgkin’s and non

hodgkin’slymphomas

-Leukemias, tumour of blood forming element