cancercell

English

Etymology

From cancer +‎ cell.

Noun

cancercell (plural cancercells)

  1. Alternative form of cancer cell
    • 1884, United States Executive Departments at the International Exhibition, volume 2, page 433:
      Portions of the cancercells were treated with dilute boiling caustic potash until a thin film of it floated on the surface of the liquid.
    • 1925, Acta Radiologica, volume 3, page 87:
      French experimentators want to have observed, that the cancercell is most sensible for radiation during the cellpartition.
    • 1933, Proceedings of the Section of Sciences:
      On a drop of a cancercell-suspension, 1cc being added to normal serum and being allowed to stand for some hours at 37°, it was found, that a part of these cells had been dissolved.
    • 1951, Proceedings - Volume 54, Part 3, page 492:
      […] wherein alcoholic extracts from the urine of cancer or non-cancer patients are brought into reaction with the sera of rabbits immunised beforehand by intravenous injections with isolated and washed cancercells.
    • 1972, Max Wolf, ‎Karl Ransberger, Enzyme-therapy, page 11:
      […] it could later on be proven that the normal substance of Freund was indeed a proteolytic enzyme with cancercell-dissolving property.
    • 1976, Nobel Prizes 1975, page 26:
      How does a cancercell arise? […] The difference between a normal cell and a cancercell resides in their genes. Transformation of a normal cell to a cancercell thus requires a change in the genetic material.
    • 1983, Philosophical Inquiry, volumes 5-6:
      However, the very same phenomenon of cancercells is regarded in a different context, a medical one, in terms of normative attributes such as "pathological" or "malfunction".
    • 2005, Current Clinical Trials For Cancer Patients, page 297:
      Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as oxaliplatin and etoposide, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancercells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing.
    • 2013, C.Th. Smit Sibinga, ‎L.F.M.H. de Leij, Cellular Engineering and Cellular Therapies:
      Although the suicide concept should usually lead to low systemic toxicity most of the products used have inherent side effects and most of the end products have limited cancercell toxicity.
    • 2013, W. F. Bynum, ‎Roy Porter, Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine:
      We may, for example, again use oncogenesis or cancercell formation as a useful probe.
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