Preposition: of

• testis: AB - We reported the case of a 35-year-old man with Klinefelter's syndrome and a malignant Leydig cell tumor of the testis.

• pancreas: They show similar characteristics to neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas.

• ovary: METHODS: We reviewed records of women who had malignant germ cell tumors of the ovary from 1977-1997.

Adjective modifier

• malignant: Only malignant tumors have the capacity to move to new locations.

• carcinoid: AB - We report ten cases of carcinoid tumor of the appendix observed in children from 1988 to 1996.

• fibroid: Read the latest on fibroids; how to treat uterine fibroids and how fibroid tumors can affect you.

• testicular: AB - We report a case of giant testicular tumor.

• benign: The mass was a rare type of benign tumor, Miracle #2.

• metastatic: When they have moved to a new location in the body they are called metastatic tumors.

Modifies a noun

• suppressor: AB - Defects in PTEN, a tumor suppressor, have been found in cancers arising in a variety of human tissues.

• necrosis: Tumor necrosis factor alpha also plays a pivotal part in inflammation.

• resection: The patient underwent a local resection of the duodenum and a tumor resection of the brain.

• recurrence: There was no tumor recurrence during a median follow-up of 8.4 years.

• antigen: In short, CTCL may be a malignancy of T cells stimulated to proliferate against its own tumor antigens.

Noun used with modifier

• germ: At that time, germ cell tumors were the cause of death in 400 males per year in Germany.

• rhabdoid: Most of the mice inoculated with highly variable BHK-21 cells developed malignant rhabdoid tumor ( MRT ).

• p53: The C. elegans homolog of the p53 tumor suppressor is required for DNA damage induced apoptosis.

• islet: Sporadic islet cell tumors are more common than islet cell tumors as a part of MEN type-I syndrome.

• brain: Sadly, we lost Dino to a brain tumor about a year later.

• soft-tissue: These results strongly suggest that Rb gene alteration is pertinent to the tumorigenesis of most osteosarcoma cases and some other bone and soft-tissue tumors.