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What is the medical term meaning benign tumor made up of mature fat cells?
A lipoma is a benign tumor of fat cells.
What does it mean when a tumor is benign?
When a tumor is benign, it means that it does not have the ability to invade the other cells in the body. Moles and warts are examples of such tumors.
What is a mass of cells that can be malignant or benign?
It is called a tumor.
When a tumor is benign it means what?
When a tumor is benign, it means that it does not have the ability to invade the other cells in the body. Moles and warts are examples of such tumors.
When a tumor remains in one location it is referred to as?
benign tumor
What is the medical term meaning nerve tumor?
Ganglioglioma is a tumor of the ganglion cells.
What is the medical term of tumor of the bone?
OsteomaA benign bone tumor is an abnormal growth of noncancerous cells.
Is a lipoma a benign tumor made up of mature fat cells?
Yes
What kind of tumor is an abnormal mass of essentially normal cells?
Yes
What are cells that are not cancerous and have no affect on health called?
When a doctor does a biopsy on a suspicious lump, sometimes she discovers it is a "benign tumor" -- the cells are benign, that is, they are not cancerous and have no effect on health.
How do you use tumor and cancer in the same sentence?
The cancer had caused the cells to form a tumor; whether it was malignant or benign was unknown.
What condition has a benign tumor?
There are many conditions that can cause a benign breast tumor, including cysts, fat necrosis, fibroadenoma, intraductal pappilloma, infections and others. All lumps should be check out by a physician but 80% turn out to be benign.
