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Posted byDr.Sam
Lesion vs Tumor Certain medical term scare patients; cancer, malignant, tumor, lesion and growth are a few of those important terms. However, this fear is groundless in many cases. While “cancer” and “malignant” truly refer to something bad, the terms “tumor” and “lesion” only mean that there is some abnormality. Even the term cancer […]
Posted byDr.Dinusha
Benign vs Malignant These two adjectives can be used to describe many conditions, but it is used mostly to describe tumors or neoplasms. A tumor or a neoplasm is a solid or fluid filled structure, may or may not be formed with a collection of neoplastic cells, which appear large in size. Here, when considering […]
Posted byAndrew
Chemotherapy vs Radiotherapy Cancer was once known to be the most incurable disease. It is usually caused by some malfunctioning of the cells inside the human body. There are so many external and internal causes for this disease. As the time moves on, the solutions to the problems are given by the professionals in this […]
Posted byDr.Guru
Brain Tumor vs Brain Cancer Tumor (tumour) is defined as new growth (neoplasm). Brain tumors are new growth of the brain tissue or the covering of the brain. Tumors can be benign (harmless tumors) or malignant (cancer). If a tumor breach the covering and spreads in to other parts it is considered as cancer. Both […]