PSY 2502 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Upasana, Mental Disorder, Stomach Cancer

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Caner: a collecion of cells that reproduce in an uncontrolled, or some say rebellious manner, forming a mass of cells. Cell reproduced is usually controlled and regulated by the body, producing only the type and number of cells needed. To ind out the speciic cause of cancer is too diicult. Benign tumor: a large mass of overgrowth cells, they are not cancer forming and they are also not life threatening. Maligant tumor: they consists of a large mass of cells that grow and muliply uncontrollably and interfere with another body organs and funcions, they are also cancerous. Maligant tumors may vary mortality rate dependent on the type of cancer. Non- hodgin"s lymphoma: a fatal form of lymphoma because the tumors are usually malignant. Sarcomas: sot-issue cancers that can occur in a number of sites in the body. Leukemia: develops in blood-producing issues, most commonly in the bone marrow, this is a rare disorder.