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What is the treatment for benign cancer?
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Usually excision..: There are usually treated simply by surgical excision. For example, benign polyps found on colonoscopy are simply resected off/snipped off. Simple warts are frozen with cryotherapy, like liquid nitrogen and taken off.
Answered 5/26/2012
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