The difference Benign Tumors and Malignant Tumors
Tumor or neoplasm is an abnormal growth of body tissues. Tumors occur when cells divide excessively in the body. The body is always doing cell division to replace the old cells and dead cells with new ones. If cell division is abnormal then the tumor can live.
Benign tumors below 1-2 cm in size and are less likely to experience growth and location is settled and does not spread or damage other tissues.
But if there is a tendency in the observations, especially if size is bigger than 2 cm in the tumors can become malignant (malignant tumor) because it is spread, damaging the surrounding tissue is often called cancer.
Cause
Tumors are usually caused by a mutation of DNA in cells, the accumulation of these mutations cause tumors. These tumors can be triggered by exposure to chemicals, exposure to too much alcohol, food or environmental toxins, excessive exposure to ultraviolet light, genetic factors or radiation virus.
Symptom
Symptoms depend on tumor location. Suppose a tumor in the lung have symptoms of cough, shortness of breath, chest pain. Tumors in the colon cause weight loss, diarrhea,constipation, anemia and blood in stool.
But most tumors do not cause symptoms and new symptoms appear after the disease entered an advanced stage. But the most common tumor symptoms are often felt chills(fever), tiredness, loss of appetite, discomfort in the body, often during sleep night sweats, weight loss and shrinking.
Treatment
If the tumor is not dangerous (benign tumor) is usually not needed surgery and doctors do not care anything. But if there is already a tendency to grow bigger, or surgical removal is the best way that afterwards followed by chemotherapy or radiotherapy to turn off the network so as not to spread out and active again.
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