Sentence examples for a symptom of malignancy from inspiring English sources

She called a neighbor who had had breast cancer, and asked her whether breast tenderness might be a symptom of malignancy.

[ 14] However, fever can be a symptom of infection, inflammation, malignancy, allergy and many other entities.

He moves onto the Turnbow sheep farm, sets up a trailer, builds a lab in the barn, hires Dellarobia as an assistant and brings in a crew of graduate students to analyze the butterflies and their dislocation, which he sees as "a symptom of vast biological malignancies".

But a symptom of what?

A symptom of his pain.

Studies on delay tend to distinguish between patient and health system delays: There are a number of reasons why a patient, facing a sign or symptom suspicious of malignancy, may decide not to visit a doctor.

These therapeutic interventions should reduce or avoid the clinical consequences of lung cancer by treating early neoplastic lesions before the development of clinically evident signs or symptoms of malignancy.

[ 2] Unfortunately, there can be delays in the diagnosis because the signs and symptoms of malignancy may be initially misdiagnosed as infection.

The presence of symptoms is a predictor of malignancy.

Imaging for suspected cancer can be used when patients are asymptomatic (i.e. screening) or when patients have symptoms suggesting a possibility of malignancy.

In their studies on alarm symptoms in primary care, Ingebrigtsen et al. found that the symptom "lump" as a predictor of malignancy had a PPV in the range of 1%, and a sensitivity of 5%, but this was for all cancer forms, not for sarcoma exclusively.