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An emerging paradigm in the study of cancer cell stress responses is their regulation by membrane-less intracellular compartments known as biomolecular condensates. While there has been considerable progress in our understanding of biomolecular condensates in cancer\n                    <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>\n                    , a paucity of evidence remains for their presence and function in settings which more closely reflect\n                    <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                    tumor physiology. In this study, we use human tissues and an\n                    <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                    orthotopic mouse model to study the role of the Amyloid-body, a stress-induced condensate, in tumorigenesis. We present methodology to visualize Amyloid-bodies in tumors by multiple immunohistochemical approaches in addition to a semi-automated analysis pipeline. Analysis of multiple tumor types reveals that Amyloid-bodies are detectable at all tumor grades and stages, to varying degrees, and negatively correlate with the cell proliferation marker Ki-67. Finally, in an orthotopic mouse model of breast cancer, we show that silencing long noncoding ribosomal intergenic spacer RNA (rIGSRNA) involved in Amyloid-body formation accelerates tumorigenesis\n                    <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                    . 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