The response provides definitions for cancer-related terms, explaining that agents causing cancer are carcinogenic, cancerous cells that grow uncontrollably are malignant, tumor masses form from such cells, and when cancer spreads, it has metastasized. ;
The relevant cancer-related terms are carcinogenic for cancer-causing agents, malignant for cancerous dividing cells, tumors for the masses formed from these cells, and metastasized for cancer that spreads to other tissues.
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