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>>> DR. JAY K. HARNESS: The word ‘benign’ means not cancerous. It’s that simple and
so we use the term to talk about non-cancerous things. A typical benign tumor of a woman’s
breast is called a fibroadenoma. It’s an overgrowth of a tissue not cancerous, not
precancerous, and it’s benign.
Lymph nodes that don’t have cancer in them that have been removed — we work at those
lymph nodes and say — they are benign. What is the opposite of benign? It’s malignant.
What does malignant means? It means cancer. So we want things to be benign. Benign means
not cancerous.