What is Heart Cancer?

In the body, any type of abnormal growth is called a tumor, whether it is found to be benign or malignant. Benign means that the tumor is noncancerous while malignant means that the tumor is cancerous. Tumors that are classified as malignant grow rapidly and tend to spread quickly to other body parts. At the same time, tumors that are benign grow slowly and are usually harmless depending on where their location is in the body.

Tumors that originate from the heart, called primary tumors, or primary heart cancer happens to be rare. The occurrence is in one out of two …read more