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Breast cancer

A highly magnified view of breast cancer tissue. Pink coloured.

A highly magnified view of breast cancer tissue. Tumour cells have large, irregular nuclei, a small cytoplasm and large variations in size and shape. The cells are arranged in a disorganised fashion.

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Rights: Ed Uthman, Creative Commons 2.0
Published: 21 July 2007Size: 518.33 KB
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