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Could benign tumors grow and become serious later on in life?
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Terminology issues: The term malignant is used to describe a tumor known to spread to ; damage tissues ; organs to the point death is possible. Benign tumors are less worrisome.They tend not to spread, but someone may have many individual ones.Their location ; growth may produce problems for the patient.Transformation to a malignancy in unheard of for some benign lesions and rare for others.
Answered 12/28/2013
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