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That's important, since even non-malignant brain tumors can require debilitating treatment and can kill.
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Clouds sweep into every life, and one of our darkest made its appearance when our grandson was diagnosed with a non-malignant brain tumor.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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Juvenile retention polyps (JRP) are a common, acquired, non-malignant cause of painless rectal bleeding typically seen in children between the ages of 1-10 yrs. old.
Clinical studies: relationship between IBD and other conditions 2010
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That's important, since even non-malignant brain tumors can require debilitating treatment and can kill.
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Clouds sweep into every life, and one of our darkest made its appearance when our grandson was diagnosed with a non-malignant brain tumor.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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Because PET measures metabolism, it can be superior to other modalities, particularly in separating tumor from benign lesions and in differentiating malignant from non-malignant masses such as scar tissue formed from radiation therapy treatment.
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But self-exam confirmed that something was terribly wrong when my breast began misbehaving and the lumps and knots that I could feel with my hand convinced me it wasn't the usual engorged, dense non-malignant breast that flared up from time to time and then settled down on its own.
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October 1999 -- Dr. Jones excises and biopsies non-malignant mole
Fourth Department 2007
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The news that Peter Mandelson, the Lord-High-Everything-Else, has had medical attention to his prostate puts me irresistibly in mind of the late and poisonous Evelyn Waugh, who said, on hearing that Randolph Churchill had had a non-malignant growth removed: "It is a typical triumph of modern science to find the only bit of Randolph that is not malignant, and take it out".
Memory Lane Bystander 2009
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It is also used to treat non-malignant thyroid disorders.
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