What is cancer?
Cancer are “some bad cells growing in or on your body”. Cells that shouldn’t be growing there in the first place and to make things worse, cells that can start traveling around in your body!
What is tumor?
A tumor is an abnormal growth of cells or tissues in or on your body. These tumor cells are not helping your body in any way, the tumor cells are there merely for their own benefit. There are 2 quite in-comprehendible ways of describing a tumor:
- a benign tumor: a good one 🙂 (not cancerous tumor)
- a malignant tumor: a bad one 🙁 (a cancer)
I have a benign tumor, so I can be entirely happy?
If life is your primary goal, then yes, you have reason to be happy. Remove the tumor and you are safe. Yet a lot of times, removing the tumor means removing more than just a tumor: lots of times when removing multiple fibroids, the whole uterus gets removed. This means: no more kids and your hormone household is thrown up side down…
Read more how a benign tumor is mostly just the start of a new story at : Tumor in the brain, form a new author on our blog!