Blastoma
Type of cancer arising from precursor cells / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the type of cancer. For 2016 album by Ngaiire, see Blastoma (album).
A blastoma is a type of cancer, more common in children, that is caused by malignancies in precursor cells, often called blasts. Examples are nephroblastoma, medulloblastoma, and retinoblastoma. The suffix -blastoma is used to imply a tumor of primitive, incompletely differentiated (or precursor) cells, e.g., chondroblastoma is composed of cells resembling the precursor of chondrocytes.