The pathology and surgical treatment of tumors . Fig. 125.—Glandular carcinoma of mamma ; X 85 (Surgical Clinic, Rush Medical College, Chicago): a, con-nective-tissue stroma; i5, alveoli packed with epithelial cells. By the term infection as applied to malignant tumors is meant theintrinsic capacity of their cells to leave the primary tumor, and bywandering into the surrounding healthy tissue to establish new centresof growth, or by being transported through pre-existing channels toreproduce the disease in the same region or in distant parts of thebody. It is this cell-migration, and the intri
The pathology and surgical treatment of tumors . Fig. 125.—Glandular carcinoma of mamma ; X 85 (Surgical Clinic, Rush Medical College, Chicago): a, con-nective-tissue stroma; i5, alveoli packed with epithelial cells. By the term infection as applied to malignant tumors is meant theintrinsic capacity of their cells to leave the primary tumor, and bywandering into the surrounding healthy tissue to establish new centresof growth, or by being transported through pre-existing channels toreproduce the disease in the same region or in distant parts of thebody. It is this cell-migration, and the intrinsic capacity of the cells toreproduce themselves in new and strange localities, that distingidsh malig-nant from benign tumors, and upon ivhich depeiids their malignancy. Local Infection.—The power of epithelial cells to penetrate intothe apparently healthy tissue, as seen and described by Waldeyer andThiersch, is evidenced in the local diffusion of every carcinoma, but itdoes not explain the malignancy of the tumor, as normal epithelialce
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