How many years can you live after a benign tumor is removed?

Benign tumors are a very common disease manifestation in modern clinical practice. Although this type of tumor and malignant tumor have the same cause, they are fundamentally different in the manifestation of the disease severity. Because the mortality rate of benign tumors is not high and they are controllable and treatable, let’s take a look at how many years you can live after a benign tumor is removed? I hope everyone can understand.

Clinically, most benign tumors do not require surgical removal and have little impact on life expectancy. For example, for some benign tumors that grow slowly and have no impact on the body, doctors generally do not recommend surgery for patients, but instead recommend regular check-ups. However, the patients themselves are worried about whether benign tumors will turn into malignant tumors. For other patients, benign tumors are diagnosed and doctors recommend removal. However, the patients themselves are worried about the risks of surgery and hesitate whether to have the surgery. Benign tumors have almost no impact on life expectancy after removal, so there is no need to worry about this issue.

For the first type of patients who are worried that benign tumors may turn into cancer, they can be analyzed based on the following two situations:

1. Look at where the benign tumor grows: When benign tumors grow in vital parts of the body and the space in these parts is quite limited, it can also cause fatal consequences. For example, benign tumors growing inside the skull, on the thyroid gland, in the mediastinum, in the gastrointestinal wall, or intestinal cavity are likely to cause obstruction, bleeding, perforation, jaundice and other emergencies as the tumor continues to grow. If treatment is delayed, life may be in danger at any time.

2. Look at the type of benign tumor: Most benign tumors will not turn into cancer, but some benign tumors are more likely to turn into cancer, such as thyroid adenoma, breast fibroids, uterine tumors, flat bone fibroids of the gastrointestinal tract, soft tissue fibroids, synovial tumors, benign pancreatic tumors, ligament fibroids, etc. Once these tumors are discovered, they must be treated promptly and, if necessary, surgically removed. Do not delay, because if you do not treat it actively, the pathogenic factors will stimulate the tumor for a long time and it will soon become cancerous.