To grow rapidly like a fungus.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fungate)
"Many of the patients counted as 'alive' had long been discharged to terminal-care facilities with advanced, fungating lesions of breast cancer, presumably to die, with no designated follow-up."
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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