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Lipomas are benign tumors that can sprout up at many places in the body as they have in your case. As your doctors have correctly stated, you do not have to worry, as these are not harmful for you in anyway, unless in a very rare case they turn malignant. Lipomas are caused for no other reason than the fact that you were probably predisposed, genetically to it. If there were just a few occurrences, most people would not usually bother with removing them - although they can be removed with surgery. However, since you are affected with nine, you should seriously consider getting them removed at some point in the future.
Lipomas are benign growths that occur in the fatty tissues of the body. They are palpable and since they usually occur away from major organs, they pose no threat to the patient. Many people do not even know they have a lipoma until after it is fully-grown. Some of the treatments that are used for lipoma are the use of ultrasound to kill the lipoma, the surgical removal of them, lipolysis and liposuction.
Ultrasound treatment is a technique that uses the same technology to perform scans inside the body; however, in this case the output of the ultrasound is much higher and is focused much narrower so that it can kill off the lipoma. The other technique involves going through surgery where it is subcutaneously removed from under the skin. Lipolysis is a technique where hormones are introduced into the body to metabolize the lipoma into harmless energy. This is quite a non-invasive technique and probably the best option as well, though the chances or recurrence of lipoma despite this is unknown. Liposuction is also a technique that can be used if the lipoma is bound to the surrounding fat tissue. The procedure of performing a liposuction begins with the doctor making a small incision through the skin into the fatty tissue. Once this is done, a vacuum tube is used to suck out all the fatty tissue in the area and with it; the lipoma should also come free. This technique may not be possible in your case considering where the lipomas are located. Another reason that you must get rid of these is the fact that in very rare cases, a lipoma can become a more malignant liposarcoma. This is usually not the case if the lipoma is subcutaneous, but more a danger if it is close to organs and the bones.
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