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[edit] "Premalignant" tumours may be "benign" - self-contradiction with definition of "benign"
The section discussing premalignant tumours says that "tumors may be benign but at risk for degeneration into malignancy". This contradicts the definition of benign given earlier.
Since "benign" was defined as "...which, untreated or with symptomatic therapy, will not become life-threatening", a premalignant tumour is not one which can be left untreated, therefore no premalignant tumour can ever be "benign", unless the definition of benign is amended in some way to talk about immediacy.
It may be that article correctly describes the actual current usage of these terms, which may possibly be rather imprecise. I don't know. User:CecilWard
