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Do benign tumors always turn into malignant tumors?
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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 5/6/2013
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