What Is A Malignant Wound?
Chronic wounds are those that can worsen a patient’s quality of life especially the oozing, bad odorous, painful and bleeding malignant wounds. They usually occur when a tumor spreads and seizes surrounding skin & blood vessels causing them to break down. Due to the poor blood flow, the area does not get proper nourishment and eventually the tissue die results in a malignant wound. It can be very painful, smells, bleed, or ooze fluid. The symptoms are difficult to be noticed for people with advanced cancer. The treatment for malignant wounds usually does not heal the wound rather than limits the symptoms affecting people’s life.
Malignant Wounds, also known as malignant tumors, fungating ulcers, cancerous wounds, or ulcerating wounds are the open cancerous lesions of the skin that occur in people suffering from advanced cancer. It may be draining and usually develop in the last six months of life or around the tumor-like a cavity or open area on the surface of the skin. People with advanced cancer can also notice this as skin bumps or improper growth on the skin’s surface. Cancer such as breast, head, neck, primary skin, gastrointestinal, and lymphoma are the most common types causing malignant wounds.
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