Letter U

Undifferentiated cancer

Cancer: A cancer in which the cells are very immature and 'primitive' and do not look like cells in the tissue from it arose.

As a rule, an undifferentiated cancer is more malignant than a cancer of that type which is well differentiated.

Undifferentiated cells are said to be anaplastic

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