1.   Although the appendix is supposedly functionless, it can become infected, and far less commonly a cancer or benign tumor develops there.

2.   A benign tumor may grow very slowly for years before it causes enough pressure on the brain to produce a recognizable symptom.

3.   A CAT scan revealed no further complications from stomach surgery to remove a benign tumor last spring.

4.   But doctors and their female patients often wonder if a benign tumor might presage malignancy.

5.   Common symptoms include memory lapses, chronic fatigue, aching joints, dizziness and benign tumors.

6.   Dr. Yang stained them and announced a few minutes later that what he had was a benign tumor of the thymus gland.

7.   Half of these are brain cancers, and half are benign tumors that can nonetheless become life threatening because they grow inside a skull that cannot expand.

8.   He has been hospitalized twice recently for blood clots and the removal of his appendix after the detection of a benign tumor.

9.   He noted that the pattern of benign tumors was not as unusual as that of the Glioma cases.

10.   Heavy or lengthy menstrual bleeding, called menorrhagia, can be caused by benign tumors known as fibroids in the uterus.