The reason is the rarity of neoplasms in the small bowel ... performed and is thirty-six times less frequent than malignant tumors of the colon, but that 60 per cent of intestinal sarcomas ...

Benign tumors are noncancerous and malignant tumors are cancerous. Other words for ‘tumor’ are lesion, polyp, and neoplasm. Some types of benign tumors, such as colon polyps, have the ...

At autopsy a sixth neoplasm was found in the sigmoid ... When one is dealing with a solitary malignant lesion of the colon or rectum the conventional type of resection appears to be indicated.

This is referred to as a neoplasm and it may be non-cancerous (benign), pre-cancerous (pre-malignant), or cancerous (malignant). Benign neoplasms are non-cancerous forms of tissue proliferation ...

Colon cancer is a malignant neoplasm arising from the lining (mucosa) of the large intestine (colon). Colorectal cancer (including cancers of the rectum as well as cancers of the colon) is the third ...