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carcinoid
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carcinoid [′kärs·ən‚ȯid]
(medicine)
A potentially malignant tumor of the argentaffin cells of the stomach and intestine.
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After the first colonoscopy, Dr Matt Rutter decided to do a second examination and it was then he found the carcinoid tumour.
If I hadn't listened to my wife, the cancer could have killed me by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
The findings showed no clear link between red and processed meat and these tumours, but they suggested a noticeably elevated risk for carcinoid tumours in the small intestine in association with saturated fat intake.
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The newsman, a native of Sligo town, became ill in January 1994 while living in Belgium and was diagnosed as suffering from carcinoid tumours, a rare form of cancer.
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