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Carcinoma refers to:
BiologyHuman Health and DiseasesNEETNEET 2003
Options:
  • A malignant tumours of the connective tissue
  • B malignant tumours of the skin or mucous membrane
  • C malignant tumours of the colon
  • D benign tumours of the connective tissue
Solution:
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The correct answer is: malignant tumours of the skin or mucous membrane
Carcinoma refers to a malignant neoplasm of epithelial origin or cancer of the internal or external lining of the body. Carcinomas, malignancies of epithelial tissue, account for 80 to 90 percent of all cancer cases.
Related Theory
Carcinomas originate in the skin, lungs, breasts, pancreas, and other organs and glands. Lymphomas are cancers of lymphocytes. Leukaemia is cancer of the blood. It does not usually form solid tumours.

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