cancercell

plural cancercells

1. alternativeAlternative form of cancer cell

   French experimentators want to have observed, that the cancercell is most sensible for radiation during the cellpartition.

   1925, Acta Radiologica, volume 3, page 87

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   Portions of the cancercells were treated with dilute boiling caustic potash until a thin film of it floated on the surface of the liquid.

   1884, United States Executive Departments at the International Exhibition, volume 2, page 433

   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.

   1933, Proceedings of the Section of Sciences

   […] 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.

   1951, Proceedings - Volume 54, Part 3, page 492

   […] it could later on be proven that the normal substance of Freund was indeed a proteolytic enzyme with cancercell-dissolving property.

   1972, Max Wolf, Karl Ransberger, Enzyme-therapy, page 11

   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.

   1976, Nobel Prizes 1975, page 26