Metastacized.
The tumor cells spread to other locations in the body.
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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.
When cancer spreads, the new sites are called metastases.
Secondary lung cancer is cancer that starts somewhere else in the body (for example, the breast or colon) and spreads to the lungs.
Metastasize means to spread. Metastasis means the process of metastasizing. Usually this term is used for the spread of cancer form its original [primary] site.
Secondary cancer occurs when cancer cells from the primary site break away and spread to another part of the body. No, secondary cancer does not necessarily mean that you have not got long to live, but in truth nobody knows the life expectation of someone with secondary cancer.
There are two kinds of lung cancers, primary and secondary.
This is untrue. Lung Cancer CAN be treated.
If it spreads, yes.
Disease It refers to the spreading of a disease-causing agent from one major point of focus to either another specific area or a general dispersal. It usually is used to refer to the spreading of cancer from one area for another. For example, when Breast cancer spreads somewhere else.
Cancer
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.
Metastatic breast cancer. This does not directly define breast cancer spreading to the bones. It is stage IV cancer that spreads from where it originally developed to other regions of the body. It can spread to the lymph nodes, lungs or many other areas of the body.