Modifies a noun

• melanoma: Can develop a malignant melanoma in very rare cases.

• neoplasm: A cancer is the commonly used term for a malignant neoplasm.

• mesothelioma: Most people with malignant mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they breathed asbestos.

• glioma: AB - BACKGROUND: Topotecan activity was evaluated for the treatment of malignant glioma.

• tumor: Five of the six patients proved to have malignant tumors.

• tumor: Prostate Cancer is a malignant tumor in the prostate of men.

Modifying Another Word

• potentially: Some potentially malignant lesions can be managed by regular review, with or without medical treatment.

• highly: The implanted tumors develop into large, highly malignant brain tumors in the puppies.

• not: These growths are often called tumors but are usually not malignant or cancer.

• particularly: The effects of asbestos related illness particularly malignant mesothelioma which is a terminal illness is obviously devastating upon the individual and their family.

• very: The form originating from collecting ducts is highly infrequent and very malignant with the five-year survival in 20 % only.

• occasionally: It is occasionally malignant with local recurrence and pulmonary spread.

Used with adjective complement

• become: A few in every 1,000 of these may become malignant.

• differentiate: We came to the conclusion that in diagnosing patients with abnormal uterine cavity, MR imaging may help differentiate malignant from benign disorders.

• consider: GAN tumors are fatal and must be considered malignant.

• call: Sometimes a tumor is called malignant when it is a cancer, but malignant hypertension is not cancer.