Invasion is a term used in pathology reports to describe how cancer cells spread into surrounding tissues. A tumour is considered invasive when cancer cells break through the normal barriers that separate different types of tissue. This is an important difference from non-invasive (in situ) tumours, which are still confined to their original location. Why …
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What does infiltrative mean? Infiltrative is a word pathologists use to describe the movement of cancer cells from their normal location into the surrounding non-cancerous tissue. Another word for infiltrative is invasion. Infiltrative is an important feature that pathologists look for when trying to decide if a tumour is benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous). Non-cancerous tumours …
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