"malignant growth" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a cancerous tumor or other malignant type of growth that is visible or detectable in some way. For example, "The patient had a malignant growth in her uterus that needed to be surgically removed."
IS it an inspired interpretation, or a malignant growth?
Prostate cancer forms as a malignant growth in the prostate gland.
Perhaps it's just the sheer visibility of Canary Wharf, its seductive size and shininess, its malignant growth.
The self, as one Rinzai teacher put it bluntly, "is a malignant growth which is to be surgically removed".
Equally, there was no surprise that this doom-laden black grape was, for the most part, concentrated on Scotland, spreading out from Glasgow like a malignant growth.
It's as if some malignant growth had taken root and were slowly transforming those thick plastic videocassette boxes into sleek digital video disc holders.
Of course not: this is a move of strictest self-interest from The Sun. Page 3 is a malignant growth of sexism on our press.
Nasal carcinoma, a malignant growth, also is found in the nasal mucous membrane.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston has been diagnosed with a rare, treatable type of cancer and will have surgery to remove the malignant growth on Monday, doctors said.
Those eligible would be patients whose cancer was detected when the malignant growth was small and limited to one or both vocal cords in a form known as glottal cancer, which accounts for about 65percentt of new laryngeal cancers.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience to have your doctor say, 'Well, you have a cancer,' " he said in his first extensive interview since one of his kidneys, which contained a malignant growth, was removed on July 15.
