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What is the process by which cancer can spreads the primary site to a secondary site?
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∙ 9y ago
Metastacized.
The tumor cells spread to other locations in the body.
Is that what you were asking?
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe spread is know as metastasis
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∙ 10y agoA secondary cancer tumour is a disease someone gets when cancer cells break away from the primary tumour and travel to another part of the body, for example the brain.
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∙ 13y agoI think you mean a secondary.
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Secondary lung cancer is cancer that starts somewhere else in the body (for example, the breast or colon) and spreads to the lungs.
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Secondary lung cancer is cancer that starts somewhere else in the body (for example, the breast or colon) and spreads to the lungs.
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What kinds of lung cancer are there?
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This is untrue. Lung Cancer CAN be treated.
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A disease that spreads worldwide is?
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What is the medical term meaning when breast cancer spreads to the bones?
Metastasis is the medical term meaning process of cancer spreading to another site in the body. The spread of cancer to the bones may be called a bone metastasis.
What is the medical term meaning a tumor that has metastasized to bone?
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