How can doctors tell if a tumor is not cancerous by just looking at the MRI?!
Question:
How can doctors tell if a tumor is not cancerous by just looking at the MRI?
the doctors told her the tumor is not cancerous but how can they tell if they havent removed the tumor yet to test it?
Answers:
Cancer has a number of characteristics that make it look different than other types of growths on MRI. Cancer is denser than normal tissues. It doesn't respect normal boundaries between tissues. Depending on what part of the body you're talking about, there may be non-cancerous growths that have a charcteristic appearance, like a lipoma, or location, like a meningioma, that lets the radiologists say that's what some lump is instead of cancer.
Imaging can't always tell the difference between cancer and something else, but if they tell you they see it's not cancer, that's reliable.