Chapter 5. Neoplasia
Tumors is common diseases.
Bad news: Malignant tumor (cancer) is the
second leading cause of death in some countries.
(The first leading cause is cardiovascular
diseases.)
According to American Cancer Society estimates,
in 2003, about 23% of all deaths in the United
States (1500 cancer deaths per day).
Good news:
The rapid progress has been made in
understanding the molecular basis and
biological behavior of cancer and cancer
therapy. Many cancers can be cure or
arrested.
For example: breast cancer, cervical cancer
But many problems still need to be solved!
Section 1. Definition and morphologySection 1. Definition and morphology
Two question:
What is tumor? Definition
What are tumors look like? Morphology
※※DefinitionDefinition
Neoplasia literally means the process of
“new growth” and a new growth is called
a neoplasm.
tumor was originally applied to the
swelling caused by inflammation.
Oncology is the study of tumors or
neoplasms.
Cancer is the common term for all
malignant tumors.
Neoplasia
In 1953, The eminent British oncologist Willis had
given neoplasia a famous definition: “A neoplasm is an
abnormal mass of tissue, the growth of which exceeds
and is uncoordinated with that of the normal tissues
and persists in the same excessive manner after
cessation of the stimuli which evoked the change.”
A more scientific difinition: “Neoplasia is genetic
disease, in which the growth of tumors is loss of
responsiveness to normal growth control, and shows
an excessive hyperplasia with abnormal
differentiation.”
Tumor (neoplasm):
under the stimulation of tumorgenic
agents
a single cell of local tissue loss the
controlling to its growth at the gene level
excessive proliferation to form neoplasm
Distinguish between neoplastic and Distinguish between neoplastic and
non-neoplastic hyperplasianon-neoplastic hyperplasia
Neoplastic Non-neoplastic
Monoclonality Polyclonality
Abnormal morphology Normal morphology
and function and function
Abnormal differentiation Matured differentiation
Persistent, autonomous Limited
Harmful Beneficial
※※Morphology and structureMorphology and structure
Number and Size: various
Shape: sessile, papillary, nodular, lobular,
cystic, fungating, ulcerated, and infiltrating
Color: dependent on histogenesis and
secondary changes (hemorrhage, necrosis)
Consistency: Parenchyma-stroma ratio,
Secondary changes
Capsule: benign with intact capsule
Secondary changes: hemorrhage, necrosis
Macropathology: The gross appearance of tumors is
varied, reflecting the nature of the tumor to some extent.
Number and size:
various
Fibroadenoma
Polypous adenoma
papillary
polypous
Shape: relate to histogenesis,
site and biologic behavior
Papilloma
Polypous adenoma
Benign
Nodular or lobular
cystic
Lipoma Fibroadenoma
Mucinous cystadenoma粘液性囊腺瘤
Benign
Fungating(菜花) Ulcerated Infiltrative
Malignant
Color:
The color of a benign tumor resembles that of the normal tissue from
which it derived.
The color of the cut surface of a malignant tumor may be gray-
white, and often varied due to secondary changes (hemorrhage,
degeneration and necrosis).
Capsule
•The benign tumor is usually circumscribed by a clearly
defined border and often encapsulated by thin fibrous capsule.
•The malignant tumor is invasive and poorly circumscribed.
Fibroma Carcinoma of stomach
Consistency
Resembles the normal tissue
it derived from
Tumors are usually firmer than
surrounding tissues
Proportion of parenchyma
and stroma
Secondary changes
Adipose tissue Lipoma: soft
Cartilage Chondroma: hard
ScirrhousScirrhous
硬癌硬癌
carcinomacarcinoma
Consistency
Parenchyma-stroma ratio
stroma>Parenchyma
hard
Histological structureHistological structure
All tumors have basic two components:
1. Parenchyma
Major component of tumor: neoplastic cell
Determine the biologic nature and specificity
2. Stroma
Composed of CT and BV →support the tumor
Growth speed depend on the stroma blood supply
LC infiltration →immune reaction to tumor
Parenchyma Stroma
Stromal BVStromal BV
Fibrosarcoma
NO stromal BVNO stromal BV
What is neoplastic atypia?
The atypia of tissue architecture
The atypia of neoplasic cells
Section 2. Neoplastic atypiaSection 2. Neoplastic atypia
※※What is atypia?What is atypia?
Atypia: Neoplastic tissue has various extent of
differences with its originated normal tissue,
both cell morphologically and tissue
architecturally.
Differentiation: The degree to which a neoplasic
cells resembles its originated normal mature
cells, both morphologically and functionally.
Anaplasia(未分化) : Lack of
differentiation of malignant neoplastic
cell, with obviously atypia.
Anaplastic tumor: composed of
undifferentiated cell.
Pleomorphism: obvious
variation in size, shape
obviously atypia
Atypia of tissue architectureAtypia of tissue architecture
Refers to difference between neoplastic
tissue and its originated normal tissue
The arrangement of neoplastic tissue
The polarization of neoplastic tissue
the relationship with stroma
Intestinal adenoma
Adenocarcinoma
Squamous cell carcinoma
Atypia of neoplastic cells
◆Pleomorphism of neoplastic cells
1. Variation in size and shape
2. Generally larger than normal cells
→tumor giant cells
◆ Pleomorphism of nucleusPleomorphism of nucleus
1. Increased nucleus:
The nuclear- to - cytoplasmic ratio may
approach 1:1 instead of the normal 1:4 - 6.
2. Variation in size, color and shape of
nucleus:
①
Size: Huge, two or more nuclei, bizarre nuclei,
large nucleoli are usually present.
②
Color: The nuclei contain an abundance of
DNA and are extremely dark staining
③ Shape :
i) The shape is usually extremely variable,
the chromatin is coarsely clumped
◆
Changes of Changes of
cytoplasm cytoplasm
1. Cytoplasm:
Basophilic →nucleoprotein increased
2. Abnormal products or secretion:
Mucus, glycogen, lipid
helpful to determine histogenesis of tumor
Mucoid carcinoma
Squamous cell carcinomaSquamous cell carcinoma
Melanoma(黑色素瘤) of the skin
Ultrastructural changes Ultrastructural changes (electron microscope)(electron microscope)
Organelles : signs of histogenesis
Neuroendocrine granules
→neuroendocrine tumor
Tonofilament and desmosomes
→squamous cell carcinoma
Myofilament and dense body →SMC
Section 3. Growth and spread of tumorSection 3. Growth and spread of tumor
Growth pattern of tumor
Biology of tumor growth
Spread of neoplasms (Invasion
and metastasis)
Mechanisms of invasion and
metastasis
Grading and staging of tumor
1. The growth of tumor1. The growth of tumor
I. Growth pattern of tumor
1.Expansive growth
2.Exophytic growth
3.Infiltrating growth
◆ Growth pattern of tumor
1. Expansive
growth:
The mode of most
benign tumor
nodular
intact capsule
Leiomyoma
(1) Sites: surface of body, body cavities
or tract organs.
(2) Shape: papillary, polypoid, cauliflower
(3) Growth pattern of both benign (has a
pedicle) and malignant tumor (also grow by
infiltrating)
2. Exophytic growth:
Exophytic growth
The mode of most malignant tumor
absence of capsule, infiltrate and destroy
surrounding tissue
3. Infiltrating growth
II. Biology of tumor growthII. Biology of tumor growth
1. Monoclonality: Tumor is formed by a
transformed cell proliferation
2. The natural history of most malignant tumors
can be divided into four phases:
(1) Malignant transformation in the target cell
(2) Clonal growth of the transformed cells
(3) Local invasion
(4) Distant metastasis
3. The multiple factors that influence
tumor growth are considered under
three headings:
(1) kinetics of tumor cell growth
(2) Tumor angiogenesis
(3) Tumor progression and heterogeneity
◆
◆
Kinetics of tumor cell growthKinetics of tumor cell growth
Doubling time of tumor cells
Growth fraction
Tumor cell production and loss
Doubling time of tumor cells:
In reality, cell cycle time for many tumors
equal to or longer than that of
corresponding normal cells
growth of tumor is not associated with a
shortening of cell doubling time
Growth fraction: the proportion of cells
within the tumor population that are in the
proliferative pool ( S + G2 phase ).
①
Early stage →vast majority of
transformed cell are in the proliferative
pool →high growth fraction
②
As tumors continue to grow →cell leave
the replicative pool →by differentiating
and by reversion to Go →in rapidly
growing tumors → approximately 20%
Tumor cell production and loss:
Growth of tumors are determined by the
excess of cell production over cell loss.
The rate of tumor growth depends on:
Growth fraction
Degree of imbalance between cell
production and cell loss
High grow fraction:
Clinical course is rapid (lymphoma)
susceptibility to chemotherapy
Low grow fraction (cell production exceeds
cell loss by only about 10%):
Grow at a much slower pace (car. of colon)
no susceptibility to chemotherapy
◆
◆
Tumor angiogenesisTumor angiogenesis
Angiogenesis is a necessary biologic
correlate of malignancy: tumors cannot
enlarge beyond 1 to 2 mm in diameter or
thickness unless they are vascularized.
Angiogenesis is requisite not only for
continued tumor growth, but also for
metastasis.
Neovascularization has dual effect:
①
Perfusion supplies nutrients and oxygen
② Newly formed endothelial cell
secreting polypeptides such as
insulin-like GF, PDGF
stimulate the growth of tumor cell
How do growing tumors develop How do growing tumors develop
a blood supply? a blood supply?
①
Tumor associated angiogenesis factors
produced by tumor cells
infiltrated inflammatory cells
◆
Tumor progression and heterogeneityTumor progression and heterogeneity
1. Tumor progression
Malignant tumor become more aggressive in
the process of growth
accelerated growth
local invasion
distant metastasis
2. 2. Tumor heterogeneityTumor heterogeneity
In the process of growth, monoclonal tumor cells
generate subclones with different characteristics
3. Mechanism:
Mutant additional genes damage(突变附
加基因损伤)
Invasiveness, rate of growth
hormonal responsiveness
susceptibility to antineoplastic drugs
2. Spread of neoplasms
Local invasion (direct spread)
Metastasis
Lymphatic metastasis
Hematogeneous metastasis
Transcoelomic metastasis
(Metastasis in body cavities)
(seeding)
Spread of neoplasms
1. Direct spread
Malignant tumor C →infiltrate tissue,
lymphatic, BV, nervous tissue
2. Metastasis
Malignant cells from primary site invade
into lymphatics, BVs and body cavities and
reach distant site continues growth to form
the same type tumor with primary tumor
①
The most common pathway for the
initial dissemination of carcinoma
②
Sarcoma(肉瘤) may also use this route
③
The most common site:
Lung
Gastrointestinal tract
Arm pit, groin, cervical glands
(臂窝,腹股沟,宫颈腺)
(1) Lymphatic metastasis:
Left
supraclavicular
LN
④
Features of hematogeneous metastatic tumor:
multiple, rounded nodules with clear border,
scattered in distribution, close to surface of organ.
Choriocarcinoma
⑤
Carcinoma umbilicus (癌脐)
Hematogeneous metastatic tumor located
surface of the organ forms umbilication because
of central hemorrhage and necrosis
(3) Transcoelomic metastasis
(Metastasis in body cavities or Seeding)
①
Definition: Malignant tumor cell of an
organ in body cavity penetrate into the surface
of the organ and break off to seed in the
surface of the organs of body cavity and form
metastatic tumor.
Transcoelomic metastasis
Colloid carcinoma of stomach
seed in
the surface
of intestine
②
krukenberg tumor:
Gastric carcinoma destroy gastric wall
and tumor cell seed in the ovaries to form
metastatic tumor
③
Sites peritoneal cavity (most common)
pleural, pericardial,
subarachnoid, joint space
④
Surgical instruments: rare
an artificial mode of dissemination
The mechanisms of invasion andThe mechanisms of invasion and
metastasis metastasis
The mechanism of local invasion
Vascular dissemination and homing
of tumor cells
Molecular genetics of metastasis
◆ The mechanism of local invasion
(1) Detachment of the tumor cells from each other :
Down-regulation of E-cadherin (CAM) expression
(2) Attachment to matrix components:
Integrin (epithelium) binding to laminin (BM)
(3) Degradation of extracellular matrix:
Tumor cell secrete proteolytic enzymes
induce host cell to elaborate proteases
(4) Migration of tumor cells: Mediated by
Tumor cell derived motility factors
Cleavage products of matrix components
◆◆ Vascular dissemination and homing of
tumor cells
Single tumor cell is destroyed
by nature killer cell (NKC)
Formation of platelet-tumor aggregate
Enhance the survival and implantability
Tumor emboli involve adhesion
to endothelium cells (EC)
Egress through the basement membrane (BM)
prostate to boneprostate to bone
lung to adrenal, brain lung to adrenal, brain
breast to lung, liver, bone breast to lung, liver, bone
(1) Tumor cell express the adhesion molecules
whose ligands are expressed on the EC of
the target organs.
(2) Some target organs may liberate
chemoattractants to recruit tumor cell
to the site.
(3) Some organs may be an unfavorable
soil for the growth of tumor seeding:
such as spleen, heart, skeletal muscle
Organ Organ
tropismtropism
◆
Molecular genetics of metastasis
1.No single metastasis gene has been found.
2.The gene that encode E-cadherin,
inhibitors of metalloproteinases, nm23,
etc. is considered metastasis suppressor
genes.
III. Grading and staging of tumorIII. Grading and staging of tumor
◆ Grading of tumor:
According to degree of differentiation
and the number of mitoses:
Grade : well-differentiated
Ⅰ
Grade : moderately-differentiated
Ⅱ
Grade : poorly-differentiated
Ⅲ
Grade : undifferentiated
Ⅳ
◆◆ Staging of tumor:Staging of tumor:
Based on size of the primary lesion,
its extent of spread to LN
distant metastasis:
UICC (international union against cancer)
TNM classification of malignant tumours
T: primary tumor, T1~T4 →increasing size
N: Regional LN involved, N
0
→no involved; N1-N3
M: distant metastasis, M
0→no; M1-M2
Section 4. Effects of tumor on host
Benign tumor: less effects
Local oppression and obstruction:
Relate to site and secondary change
Important organs: intestinal, brain→hernia(疝)
Tumor of endocrine glands: systemic symptoms
Acidophilic adenoma of hypophysis(垂体) cerebri:
gigantism or acromegaly
Adenoma of pancreatic islets: fatal hypoglycemia
Malignant tumorMalignant tumor
1. Local compression + obstruction + pain
2. Constitutional symptoms:
Fever, infection, night sweat
3. Cachexia(恶病质) :
Refer to the state of progressive loss of
weight, anemia, weakness and systemic
failure.
Lead to lesions of endocrine, nervous, digestive
system and so on
(1) Ectopic endocrine syndrome:
Some non-endocrine tumors elaborate
hormones or hormone-like substance cause
endocrine disorder.
①
Hypercalcemia: parathormone -like substance
elaborated by carcinoma of lung, kidney
②
Hypoglycemia: elaboration of insulin-like
substance by fibrosarcoma, mesothelioma
(2) Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy:
Formation of bone, arthritis of the
adjacent joint and clubbing of the digits.
(3) Vascular and hematologic syndrome:
Migratory thrombophlebitis,
endocarditis
Section 6. Differences between
Benign and malignant tumor ※
Degree of well poorly
differentiation structure is typical obvious atypia
Mitotic figure rare and normal increased
no pathologic mitotic pathologic mitotic
Rate of growth slow rapid
Growth pattern expansive infiltrative
exophytic exophytic
well demarcated poorly
demarcated
Benign malignant
※
Difference between benign and malignant tumor
(Part I)
Secondary rare common
changes ( hemorrhage, necrosis)
Local invasive noninvasive locally invasive
Metastasis absent common
Recurrence rare common
Effects compression cachexia
on host obstruction metastasis
Benign malignant
※
Difference between benign and malignant tumor
(Part
II)
Questions:
How tumor growth? (growth pattern)
How neoplasms Spread? (Invasion and metastasis)
Try to explain The process of tumor cells
local invasion?
Difference between benign and malignant
tumor?