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What a wonderful word that is, benign. Here's a better couple of words, "no surgery." My mom will be undergoing radiation treatment soon to get rid of the tumor. Her doctor thinks this will dramatically improve her balance and might even restore some of her hearing (but he's not very hopeful about that).
She has a slow growing benign tumor just behind her right ear. It can be removed with surgery, but those are the fiddly bits of the brain (which aren't?) and surgery might induce "stroke-like" behavior in her facial muscles.
So she's getting irradiated. Maybe she'll get super powers...
- Of a kind and gentle disposition.
- Showing gentleness and mildness.
- Tending to exert a beneficial influence; favorable: a policy with benign consequences for the economy.
- Having little or no detrimental effect; harmless: a chemical additive that is environmentally benign.
- Medicine Of no danger to health; not recurrent or progressive; not malignant: a benign tumor.
What a wonderful word that is, benign. Here's a better couple of words, "no surgery." My mom will be undergoing radiation treatment soon to get rid of the tumor. Her doctor thinks this will dramatically improve her balance and might even restore some of her hearing (but he's not very hopeful about that).
She has a slow growing benign tumor just behind her right ear. It can be removed with surgery, but those are the fiddly bits of the brain (which aren't?) and surgery might induce "stroke-like" behavior in her facial muscles.
So she's getting irradiated. Maybe she'll get super powers...