Before revision: In one of the modern histopathologic senses of the term, dysplasia is differentiated from other categories of tissue change including hyperplasia, metaplasia, and neoplasia, and dysplasias are thus generally not neoplastic (not cancerous).
After revision: sometimesIn one of the modern histopathologic senses of the term, dysplasia is differentiated from other categories of tissue change including hyperplasia, metaplasia, and neoplasia, and dysplasias are thus generally not neoplastic (not cancerous).