Academic Institutions: - Relating to education and scholarship e.g. Universities

Benign: - Not cancerous

Biomarkers: - Substances sometimes found in an increased amount in blood or tissue that may suggest the presence of some types of cancer.

Biopsy: - Removal of a sample of tissue or cells for examination for purpose of diagnosis.

Cancer: - A disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells.

Chromosomes: - Structures in cell nucleus which control the genes responsible for heredity.

Consent: - Permission or agreement.

Control: - Comparison

Diagnosis: - The identification of the nature of an illness by examination of the symptoms.

Donate/Donation: - Allowing the gift of blood, an organ or tissue from ones body.

DNA: - Component of chromosomes that carries the genetic code.

Epidemiology: - Study of the distribution and causes of disease in a population.

Genetics: - The study of genes.

Genes: - The biological information you inherit from your parents.

Heredity:- Genetic transmission from parent to child.

Histology: - The study of cells relating to the disease.

Oncology: - Science dealing with physical/chemical and biological properties and features of cancer, including causes and disease process.

Metastasis: - Where cancer has spread to other parts of the body beyond the primary site.

Pathologist: - A Doctor who specialises in the nature/structures and identity of disease.