A 36-year-old member asked:
Malignant tumors shows metastasis but benign tumor not. how do i know if i have a benign tumor?
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Dr. Jocelyn Tananswered
33 years experience
Benign tumor?: Although benign tumors can be observed and do not normally metastasize, the best way to confirm is to have a biopsy.
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Dr. Rowena Desailly-chansonanswered
29 years experience
By symptoms felt: I assume that you thought that because you have symptoms of some growth somewhere...The only way one can really tell benign from malignant in a strictest sense of the word is to look at it with a microscope and have a pathologist look at it...But simply put a benign tumor is a growth with a very very slow rate of cell growth unlike malignant tumors that grow fast and spread to different places.
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A 46-year-old member asked:
I know malignant tumors shows metastasis but benign tumor not. But there is an example of benign tumo?
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Dr. Myron Arlenanswered
Surgical Oncology 66 years experience
Some do spread: By definition a benign tumor does not have the potential to spread. Distant spread has occurred when a lesion that is manipulated or curetted has shown signs of spread. This is really not metastasis.
A report of benign metastasizing fibroma of the thumb was reported by keasby many years ago. Some benign sweat gland tumors of axilla have been shown to be present in axillary nodes, .
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