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Appendix A Glossary
Appendix A Glossary
Pages 119-122
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A gene located on chromosome 17 that normally helps to sup5Sources of definitions include Doriand 's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 2000)
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An extremely common benign tumor, occurring most commonly in infancy and childhood, made up of newly formed blood vessels and resulting from malformation of angioblastic tissue of fetal life. Hepatocellular carcinoma.
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A normal cellular gene that, with alteration, such as mutation, DNA rearrangement, or nearby insertion of viral DNA, becomes an active oncogene; most proto-oncogenes are believed to function normally in cell growth and differentiation. Renal adenocarcinoma.
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A rapidly developing malignant mixed tumor of the kidneys, made up of embryonal elements; it usually affects children before the fifth year but may occur in the fetus and rarely in later life.
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