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A benign tumor can be harmful, even if it does not enter the blood stream of the lymph fluid. It can grow to the size where it puts pressure on other parts of the body, causing harm to those parts. Tumors require a large amount of blood, so it can grow large enough so that it requires blood at the expense of other parts of the body, also causing potential harm

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