Premalignant disease

I have posted a new essay on premalignant disease, click here.

It begins:

Premalignant disease is typically defined as a cluster of cells with some malignant properties but which do not have or have not demonstrated the ability to invade into deeper tissue or to spread to other parts of the body (Curtius 2017).

Premalignant disease is important because

• It is a risk factor for cancer; we must either remove it surgically, destroy it with other treatment or follow it carefully.

• It may indicate that invasive cancer is currently present and we have to look harder to find it.

• It helps us to better understand how cancer arises.

This essay has many great diagrams and images that I cannot reproduce here in a nicely formatted way - please click here for the rest of the essay.