2006-08-11 12:44:17 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Tumor doesn't mean anything but "mass", so you are probably thinking that tumor and cancer mean the same. There are benign tumors (lipoma is an example) and malignant tumors (cancers in general).
So I guess your question is how to know if that mass you or someone else has is a benign tumor or a cancer, right?
The only definitive way to know is excising the tumor and doing a biopsy. However, lipomas are very easy to identify without the need to remove them surgically, so usually we doctors are able to know from the clinical aspect if it's a lipoma or not. Usually lipomas are soft masses, not attached to the underlying tissues and pretty mobile. We only remove them when they are growing in size (which may indicate the possibility of a cancer...), if they are aesthetically bothersome to the patient, or if their location or size makes them painful. Otherwise, we just leave them and watch them for growth. And by the way, they are very common.
2006-08-11 13:14:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Contact your PCP, who may refer you to an oncologist if you are ill.
Tumor can be benign or cancerous. I had lymphoma. My lymph nodes were swollen, but I also had tumors. Some tumors, in lymphoma at least, can actually be both cancerours ( a core) surrounded by a mass of non cancerours cells which in totality is defined as a tumor.
hope this helps
2006-08-11 14:13:02 · answer #2 · answered by zarry 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are "fatty tumors", and then there are tumors... Just do this little test...Grab the mass and "wiggle" it. Does it have a lot of give to it ? Or does it seem "anchored". If you can wiggle it and it doesn't seemed to be really anchored to bone or muscle, it's just a fatty tumor.. :-) Not a threat...Just something that almost all older spaniels develope. If it feels like it's totally anchored on to something ? That's when you worry....Hope I've helped.. :-)
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2016-04-16 06:20:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a lypoma is a type of tumor that is benign. the majority of tumors are benign irregardless you should go to the doctor and have it worked up. a MRI can tell the doctor what kind of tumor you have depending on where it is located.
2006-08-11 13:09:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doctors can sometimes distinguish between a lipoma ( a lump of fat) and a tumor by how it feels and it's location. When in question, they usually remove it.
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2016-04-22 10:12:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can't, always. If you think you have a lipoma, have it removed. No matter what a doctor tells you. If he tells you to leave it in, say "Thanks, but I'd feel better having it out. Can you recommend a general surgeon to do the procedure?"
I have heard of patients leaving lipomas in, only to find out later they were enlarged lymph nodes. Not common, but it could happen. Don't leave something in you that doesn't belong!
2006-08-11 14:31:33 · answer #8 · answered by Becca 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a lipoma is a fatty tumor-benign.
a tumor could be cancerous, malignant.
2006-08-11 13:04:57 · answer #9 · answered by lol 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a biopsy needs to be done to detremine if a tumor is cancerous
2006-08-11 12:46:15 · answer #10 · answered by Mrs. Me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋