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Answer
A benign tumour stays confined to its site of origin, does not invade the surrounding tissue and causes little damage. A malignant tumour grows rapidly, invades and destroys the surrounding tissue and sheds cells that travel through the blood to start secondary tumours elsewhere, a process called metastasis.
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Explanation
Metastasis is what makes cancer so difficult to treat.
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