cancer cell

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   a cell that is part of a malignant tumor

   Broaderneoplastic cell

   Part ofmalignancy

Questions about cancer cell

What does cancer cell mean?

cancer cell means "a cell that is part of a malignant tumor".

Is cancer cell a common word?

cancer cell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.