300889 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cell Potency, Germ Layer, Melanoma

• School: UWS
• Department: University of Western Sydney
• Course: 300889
• Professor: unknown

Document Summary

Benign > meaning it does no harm (not able to create another tumour), however people can die from it. Malignant > a tumour capable of creating another tumours in a different site (even after removal). If it does it"d be called a secondary tumour. Most common cancers in australia, and common metastatic sites. The most common cancers in australia (excluding non- melanoma skin cancer) are prostate, colorectal (bowel), breast, melanoma and lung cancer. These five cancers account for over 60% of all cancers diagnosed in australia. Common metastatic sites include: lymph nodes, but can also spread to the liver, pleura, adrenal glands, bone and brain. Normal types of tissue growth and cell death. During tissue growth, it could utilities a combination of any of the following ways, which are considered normal tissue growth: multiplicative (hyperplasia, auxetic (hypertrophy, accretionary (hyperplasia & hypertrophy combined. Atrophy > when there"s a decrease in the size of tissue (could be the whole organ).