Tumor Growth and Spread

Tumor progression describes how a tumor changes over time. It includes tumor growth and, in some cases, spread to other parts of the body. These changes help explain why cancer can become more serious.

As tumor cells divide, the tumor can increase in size. Some tumors stay in one place, while oth...

Tumor progression is a phenomenon where the pre-formed tumor acquires successive morphological and molecular changes to become more aggressive and malignant in its  character.

Cancer begins as a single genetic change in a healthy cell, and with time, the progenies of that cell continue to proliferate and pass on the mutation to all the da...