adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
malignant/benign tumour (= caused by or not caused by cancer )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cell
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That is to say, malignant cells that had broken away from the original cancer and begun to reproduce in other parts of the body.
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I know perfectly well that metastases are not just a characteristic of malignant cells , spreading from organ to organ.
change
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Very rarely, malignant change may occur resulting in cancer of the bowel or genitalia.
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No clear relation was found with degree of dysplasia, and no information was given pertaining to size or presence of malignant change .
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Total colectomy was performed because of incomplete removal of a large tubular adenoma with intra-epithelial malignant change .
disease
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The colon was not assessed in nine patients in whom the diagnosis of malignant disease elsewhere had been obtained by other tests.
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A small number of patients were not contacted further on the advice of their general practitioner, usually because of concurrent malignant disease .
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Chronic radiation enteritis is now recognised as a frequent and clinically important sequel of abdominal and pelvic irradiation treatment for malignant disease .
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These patients, apart from fearing the surgical procedure and the effects of malignant disease , often have severe psychological problems after surgery.
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This is sometimes the case in advanced malignant disease .
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Cholangiography accurately locates the site of a stricture in the biliary tree and radiological features may suggest the presence of malignant disease .
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The increased frequency of malignant disease in this population is of importance in view of the major impact on overall management.
melanoma
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One type of skin cancer is malignant melanoma .
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I would like to know in what proportion of the control patients the referring general practitioner considered the diagnosis of malignant melanoma .
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Cases of malignant melanoma have more than doubled in the last 10 years in countries with a fair-skinned population.
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You are not necessarily at any more risk of malignant melanoma than some one who has fewer moles.
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The reverse gradient applies for only one cause of death, malignant melanoma of the skin.
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In humans, malignant melanoma - a cancer of the cells containing skin pigment - is a particular hazard of excess sunbathing.
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An underlying hormonal element has long been suspected in many cases of malignant melanoma .
stricture
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Their use in malignant strictures provides immediate drainage, avoiding the early complications encountered with plastic stents.
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Six patients, all with malignant strictures , had bile samples taken at both endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography.
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It is not certain whether benign strictures degenerate into malignancy or whether malignant strictures are carcinomas to start with.
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Sixteen percent of the patients with left sided colitis developed malignant strictures compared with 31% of the patients with universal colitis.
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Figure 1 shows the proportions of benign and malignant strictures by duration of colitis.
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The most striking aspect of our study is the difference in presenting symptoms associated with benign v malignant strictures .
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How are we to separate benign from malignant strictures ?
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Eleven of the 17 patients with malignant strictures presented with obstructive symptoms.
tumour
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Worst of all, Winsome had developed a large malignant tumour on the eyelid of one eye.
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Pockets were emptied of loose change, parcels scanned as if for a malignant tumour and handbags rifled for evidence of evil intent.
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His fate may soon be similar, having just had a malignant tumour removed.
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I have known him for five years and he has just been diagnosed as having a malignant tumour .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Moby Dick is used as a symbol of all the malignant forces in the world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Of the 66 deaths from other causes in men born after term, 34 were from malignant neoplasms.
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One type of skin cancer is malignant melanoma.
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Since then these stents have been used in bile ducts for malignant obstructive jaundice and are placed either percutaneously or endoscopically.
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The malignant potential of many other virus types mainly found in association with mild to moderate dysplastic smears is uncertain.
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The fashion for tanned skin is the main cause of the doubling of malignant skin cancers in the last ten years.
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The increased concentration and urokinase in malignant tissues may partly explain the finding of increased concentrations of urokinase in malignant ascites.
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The significantly lower plasminogen activator activity of malignant ascites is associated with greatly increased concentrations of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1.