FunctionalTumours

Functional Units & Tumours

Functional Unit:

1. Constructing a Functional Unit

2. Sieving the Functional Unit

3. The Functional Unit in Action

4. Solving a Clinical Problem

5. Classifying Diseases

6. Functional Units & Acute Pains

7. Functional Units & Tumours

8. Making a Diagnosis

9. A Roast Duck & Three Litres of Jupin Beer

You will remember meeting one system for approaching tumours in the sieve. There we learnt to think of all tumours as either benign or malignant – and if malignant, as either primary (including in-situ tumours) or secondary.

We can expand this system of tumours further with the power of the functional unit. First we fashion a functional unit of the organ in question, containing all the tissues specific to that organ. Then we use our sieve to build a list of possible tumours that may arise. Lets use the breast as an example…