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Cancer that can move throughout the body and spread to other organs
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Is chemotherapy used for skin cancer?
Chemotherapy can be used to fight any form of cancer that has metastasized. If the cancer has not yet metastasized, the cancerous area can be removed.
What is the difference between a tumor that has metastasized and one that hasn't?
When a tumor has not metastasized, it is growing in only one location. A tumor that has metastasized becomes many tumors growing in many locations, and furthermore, this is a continuing process by which the cancer takes over more and more of the body.
What can determine if liver cancer has metastasized from a primary tumor in the lungs?
Chest x rays may be used to see whether the liver tumor is primary or has metastasized from a primary tumor in the lungs.
How do patients with metastasized melanoma react to therapy?
Treatment for those patients who present with or go on to develop systemic disease usually fails; melanoma that has metastasized to the brain is particularly difficult to treat.
Why did cameron's husband die from house MD?
Thyroid cancer metastasized to his brain.
Cancer that has spread to the liver (metastasized)?
ALT and AST Normal or slightly increased
What does metastasised mean?
Metastasized means that the tumor has spread to other parts of the body.
What does lung cancer with nodules attached to the rib mean?
The cancer has spread from the lungs. It has metastasized.
When cancer cells invade other cells and tissues in the body the cancer is said to have done what?
Metastasized.
What is the meaning of metastasized?
it means that cancer cells have spread from their original location to other parts of the body.
What biopsy samples would be the best indicator that the cancer has metastasized and is circulating through the bloodstream?
lymph node
What is Radioimmunotherapy?
Radioimmunotherapy is a promising way to treat cancer that has spread (metastasized) to multiple locations throughout the body
