malignant tumor
Noun
Meaning
a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body
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It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Hansen 2005, p. 128. In June 1961, daughter Karen was diagnosed with a malignant tumor of the middle part of her brain stem ; X-ray treatment slowed its growth, but her health deteriorated to the point where she could no longer walk or talk.
Meyers 1998, p. 304. He fell ill again on May 31 and underwent further surgery at Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles in early June to remove a malignant tumor from his large intestine.
Ceruminous gland adenocarcinoma is the primary malignant tumor of the sweat glands found in the external auditory canal.
It is a method developed by a team at John Hopkins University in Maryland, USA, which can detect cancer before symptoms occur in the patient and when the malignant tumor can still be removed by surgery.
It may also be used as part of adjuvant therapy, to prevent tumor recurrence after surgery to remove a primary malignant tumor (for example, early stages of breast cancer).