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Cancer

Date: March 2003

Definition:

Any malignant tumour characterised by the uncontrolled growth and spread of malignant cells and invasion of tissue. The term cancer includes leukaemia and Hodgkin's disease but the following are excluded: all tumours which are histologically described as pre-malignant, as non-invasive or as cancer in situ; all tumours of the prostate unless histologically classified as having a Gleason score greater than 6 or having progressed to at lease TNM classification T2N0M0; any skin cancer other than invasive malignant melanoma.

No change since December 2002

 

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