All of the above I suppose. You forgot to add loss of treatment to those who need it. You haven’t specified which services are being limited but presumably something is lost when we limit offerings.
A cause for infection is pathogens entering the body. This is either to a disease that's being transferred from one being to another, or through toxins, wounds, and similar things. Most commonly, when fighting the infection, the body produces white blood cells to combat the infection, which in combination with medication usually defeats the infection.
Benign tumors are not cancerous. Malignant tumors are cancerous.
Benign tumors usually aren't problematic while malignant tumors grow and spread quickly putting you in harms way.