Cancer

Cancer [ Biology - Phytopathology ]	Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names
Synonym: Tumour , Cancerous growth

A general term for several diseases characterized by massive uncontrolled clonal growth of the cells of a tissue or of an organ in a multicellular organism. Also called a tumour.

Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell division whit potentially unlimited growth. The resulting mass, or tumor, can invade and destroy surrounding normal tissues. Cancer can develop in any organ of the body and can have many different forms in each body area. This unregulated growth is caused by a series of acquired or inherited mutations to DNA within cells, damaging genetic information that define the cell functions and removing normal control of cell division.
As a result cancer cell undergo continuing mitotic divisions and are not inhibited in their growth when they come in contact with neighbouring cells. Thus, cancers obliterate the normal architecture of the host tissue.

Plant cancer is similar and can be defined as a 'massive cellular growth without cellular differentiation'.

Plant cancer is most often seen as 'galls'.

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