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Cancer

Date: July 1999

Definition:

A malignant tumour characterised by the uncontrolled growth and spread of malignant cells and the invasion of tissue. This includes leukaemia, Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma but excludes 1) non-invasive cancers in situ and 2) any skin cancer other than invasive malignant melanoma.

 

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