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tumor
(redirected from stromal tumors)

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tumor: see neoplasm neoplasm or tumor, tissue composed of cells that grow in an abnormal way. Normal tissue is growth-limited, i.e., cell reproduction is equal to cell death.
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tumour (US), tumor
Pathol
a. any abnormal swelling
b. a mass of tissue formed by a new growth of cells, normally independent of the surrounding structures

tumor [′tü·mər]
(medicine)
Any abnormal mass of cells resulting from excessive cellular multiplication.


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The Thousand Oaks company tested the product on 138 patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors who stopped responding to Gleevec, a drug by Novartis.
To the Editor: Certain gastric submucosal tumors (SMTs) that are considered to be gastrointestinal stromal tumors (usually larger than 3 cm) require operative intervention because pathologic confirmation of its malignant potential is very difficult to make by endoscopic biopsy alone.
A clinicopathologic study of twenty-six hypercellular periductal stromal tumors of the breast.
 
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