Because malignant and benign lumps tend to have different physical features, imaging tests such as mammography and ultrasonography can often rule out cancer.
He had left the team on May 1, convinced he had tonsilitis, but his doctor found a malignant lump the size of a plum.
But in women under 50, only 56 percent of palpable malignant lumps can be visualized.
Hendy Dayton's malignant lump wasn't picked up by a mammogram, but her fingertips couldn't miss it.
There are many factors to consider when diagnosing a malignant lump.
Since then she had undergone surgery to remove a malignant lump the size of a marble from her left breast.
Pammy had two malignant lumps removed from her right breast yesterday and will have her lymph nodes removed on Monday.
Green was diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2005 after a small malignant lump was found in his chest.
Later, Ms. Kushner became an advocate for increased use of lumpectomy, in which the malignant lump is removed but the rest of the breast is left.
His interference leads to her discovery of a malignant lump on her breast and a medical scam targeting her orchestrated by her long-lost boyfriend.