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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.
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.
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.
What is metastasized?
Cancer that can move throughout the body and spread to other organs
What term descibes a tumor that has spead?
Yes, it can spread the proper name for a spreading tumor is Malignant, meaning that it spreads from the tumor into the blood supply and then they regrow and repopulate
What is the medical term meaning not malignant?
Benign :) Trust me, I'm in anatomy classes.Benign
Why did cameron's husband die from house MD?
Thyroid cancer metastasized to his brain.
What does metastasised mean?
Metastasized means that the tumor has spread to other parts of the body.
Cancer that has spread to the liver (metastasized)?
ALT and AST Normal or slightly increased
What does lung cancer with nodules attached to the rib mean?
The cancer has spread from the lungs. It has metastasized.
What is the medical term meaning tumor that speads to other parts of the body?
Could be called hypertrophy, (that means overgrown tissue) or metastasized. Not sure if that just applies to cancerous tumors or not.
