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The company continues to focus on its core therapeutic areas, including oncology, inflammation and autoimmunity, and myeloproliferative neoplasms and graft-versus-host disease, with a strong pipeline of products in various stages of development.—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 10 Feb. 2025 Collectively known as myeloproliferative neoplasms, or MPNs, these rare blood cancers are, well, very rare.—Brittany Risher, SELF, 30 July 2024 The members taught me that a hematologist is a general blood doctor, not a specialist in my type of blood cancer (a category called myeloproliferative neoplasms, or MPN).—Alice Oglethorpe, SELF, 16 July 2024 As for specimen 236, the team confirmed the lesions Wells attributed to malignancy—specifically excessive destruction of tissue associated with neoplasm—and also noted around 30 smaller round lesions scattered around the bone surface, indicating that the cancer had spread.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024 Mucinous neoplasms: Generally benign tumors that include lesions with precancerous potential.—USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024 However, earlier this spring, Keaton developed a mass that has been diagnosed as a histiocytic neoplasm sarcoma.—Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 23 June 2023 Most reports refer to metastatic skin manifestation of systemic malignancies: this condition has been rarely described as a primary skin neoplasm.—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2014 The report said that the mass in his lungs looked like a neoplasm — the fancy word for tumor.—Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from German Neoplasma, from neo-neo- + -plasma-plasm (perhaps as Greco-Latin rendering of German Neubildung, Gewebsneubildung)
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