Nursing 2 Oxford Unit 7 Oncology

A mass of abnormal cells that develops when cancerous cells divide and grow uncontrollably.

• oesophagus

• tumor

• lymph node

The spread of cancer cells beyond their original site

• lymph node

• adjacent

• metastasis

deadly, extremely harmful, evil; spiteful, malicious

• malignant

• oesophagus

• adjacent

Bean-shaped filters that cluster along the lymphatic vessels of the body.

• sympathetic

• lymph node

• malignant

giving you a good feeling that you have done something valuable, important, etc.

• sympathetic

• overwhelming

• rewarding

sympathy for another's suffering; pity

• palliative

• compassion

• denial

to express the opposite

• bout

• bargain

• contradict

a ceremony in which a deceased person is buried or cremated

• funeral

• bout

• bargain

to leave behind

• contradict

• abandon

• sink in

unable to be healed or remedied

• discurable

• incurable

• uncurable