malignancy
Sign in to saveMalignancy () is the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse; the term is most familiar as a characterization of cancer.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Malignancy
- Medical condition (new).image
- Types of tumor cells.jpg
- Medical condition (new).field
- Oncology
- Medical condition (new).synonyms
- Cancer, malignant neoplasm
- Medical condition (new).symptoms
- Fatigue, lump(s), change in skin, abnormal bleeding, prolonged cough, unexplained weight loss
- Medical condition (new).risks
- Smoking, sun exposure, genetics—history of malignancy, solid organ transplantation (post-transplant malignancy), infectious diseases
- Medical condition (new).diagnosis
- Biopsy
- Medical condition (new).treatment
- Photoradiation therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, hyperthermia
- Medical condition (new).frequency
- 442.4 per 100,000 per year
- Medical condition (new).deaths
- per year
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13 sectionsContents
- Signs and symptoms
- Causes
- Triggers
- Risk factors
- Post-transplant malignancy
- Management
- Surgery
- Photoradiation
- Hyperthermia
- Chemotherapy
- Epidemiology
- See also
- References
Malignancy () is the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse; the term is most familiar as a characterization of cancer.
A malignant tumor contrasts with a non-cancerous benign tumor in that a malignancy is not self-limited in its growth, is capable of invading into adjacent tissues, and may be capable of spreading to distant tissues.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “malignancy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.