A characteristic feature of malignant tumours is

The malignant tumours are a mass of proliferating cells called neoplastic cells. The cells sloughed from malignant tumours reach distant sites through blood, and wherever they get lodged in the body, they start a new tumour there. This property called metastasis is the most feared property of malignant tumours. Cancer cells do not exhibit anchorage dependence. They do not exhibit contact inhibition. They exhibit high levels of telomerase activity.