A benign tumor composed of cartilage tissue that grows slowly and usually doesn't spread to other parts of the body.
From Greek 'chondros' (cartilage) + '-oma' (tumor suffix). The term combines the medical root for cartilage with the standard suffix used in pathology to denote abnormal growths or tumors.
Cartilage tumors are fascinating because cartilage is one of the few tissues in your body that doesn't have blood vessels running through it—which is why these tumors grow so slowly compared to cancers fed by rich blood supplies.
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