Managing Symptoms of Malignant Wounds

Course overview

Up to 14% of patients with metastases will develop a malignant wound. A malignant wound may result from a primary cutaneous malignancy or metastasis of existing cancer or be a malignant transformation of an existing wound. Malignant transformation of an existing wound develops from chronic irritation and inflammation when a chronic wound undergoes changes that transform it into a malignant ulcer (Tilley et al., 2021).