Malignancy
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Malignancy (from Latin male 'badly' and -gnus 'born') is the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse; the term is most familiar as a characterization of cancer. A malignant tumor contrasts with a non-cancerous benign tumor in that a malignancy is not self-limited in its growth, is capable of invading into adjacent tissues, and may be capable of spreading to distant tissues. A
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| Malignancy | |
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| Other names | Cancer, malignant neoplasm |
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| Malignant tumor (right) spreads uncontrollably and invades the surrounding tissues; benign tumor (left) remains self-contained from neighbouring tissue | |
| Specialty | Oncology |
| Symptoms | Fatigue, lump(s), change in skin, abnormal bleeding, prolonged cough, unexplained weight loss |
| Risk factors | Smoking, sun exposure, genetics—history of malignancy, solid organ transplantation (post-transplant malignancy), infectious diseases |
| Diagnostic method | Biopsy |
| Treatment | Photoradiation therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, hyperthermia |
| Frequency | 442.4 per 100,000 per year |
| Deaths | c. 10 million per year |
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