The terms tumor and cancer can refer to different types of lumps and bumps. But the terms are often confused and misused—by ...

The word “tumor” is loaded with frightening possibility. Simply put, it’s an abnormal growth of cells. It can be cancer — a malignant tumor. But in many cases, the growth is instead a benign, or ...

The terms tumour and cancer often cause confusion due to interchangeable use. Tumours may be benign or malignant, while not ...

The author's son consulting with his doctor, Eugene Hwang, associate chief of oncology at Children's National Hospital in Washington, during treatment in 2020. I saw the mass on my son’s brain from ...

Tumours can be either benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous), with benign tumours sometimes requiring treatment due ...

It's not often that a pathologist gets to make a diagnosis that works for the patient by preventing treatment from occurring.

When my son was 11, we found out he had a benign brain tumor. Soon, I learned the word "benign" didn't mean harmless, as I'd previously thought. The tumor was inoperable, but they did surgery to treat ...

Benign bone tumors may be present in nearly 20 percent of healthy children, based on a review of historical radiographs in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. The journal is published in the ...

Soon, I learned the word "benign" didn't mean harmless, as I'd previously thought. The tumor was inoperable, but they did surgery to treat his hydrocephalus, with a slow recovery. At 11, my son was ...

A group of researchers in Trondheim, Norway, are the first in the world to use in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to separate benign tumors from cancer. Ingrid Susann Gribbestad shows, in ...