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anaplastic

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an·a·plas·tic (n-plstk)
adj.
1. Relating to the surgical restoration of a lost or absent part.
2. Of, relating to, or characterized by cells that have become less differentiated.

anaplastic
1. restoring a lost or absent part.
2. characterized by anaplasia.


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OXiGENE also announced that it has had continued positive discussions with the FDA regarding its proposed anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) program, and continues to anticipate that the first patient will be enrolled in the Phase III ATC clinical trial in the first half of 2007.
Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) showed predominantly spindle cells with scattered lymphocytes (figure 1, B), suggesting a differential diagnosis that included thymoma, spindle cell carcinoma, spindle cell variants of medullary and anaplastic thyroid carcinomas, and a spindle cell variant of lymphoma.
The National Cancer Institute estimates that glioblastoma and anaplastic astrocytoma account for approximately 38% of primary brain tumors.
 
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