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metastasis
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thumb|Squamous cell carcinoma occluding [[bronchus with metastasis to adjacent lymph node]]
Metastasis is when cancer cells spread from where they originally formed to other parts of the body, such as nearby lymph nodes or distant organs. It matters because metastatic cancer is generally more serious and harder to treat than cancer that remains in one location.
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- Metastasis /mᵻˈtastəsɪs/ metastases
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Research
524,095 papers- Metastasis.Current pharmaceutical biotechnology · 2011Peters MGDOI: 10.2174/138920111798376897
- Critical determinants of metastasis.ReviewSeminars in cancer biology · 2002Fidler IJDOI: 10.1006/scbi.2001.0416
- [METASTASIS OF CANCERS].ReviewRevista mexicana de cirugia, ginecologia y cancer · 1963ZUCKERMANN C
- Mechanisms of Metastasis of Solid Organ Tumors in the Perioperative Period.ReviewInternational anesthesiology clinics · 2016Freeman J, Connolly C, Buggy DDOI: 10.1097/AIA.0000000000000124
- Mechanisms of metastasis: seed and soil.ReviewCancer treatment and research · 2007Piris A, Mihm MC JrDOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-69219-7_9
- [Clinical diagnosis and therapy strategies of lung metastasis].ReviewZhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2014Cai M, Shen-Tu YDOI: 10.3779/j.issn.1009-3419.2014.03.18
- Molecular targets in metastasis: lessons from genomic approaches.ReviewCancer genomics & proteomics · 2007Fingleton B
- Cancer metastasis scrutinized.Nature · 2009Dolgin EDOI: 10.1038/461854b
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18 sectionsContents
- Signs and symptoms
- Pathophysiology
- Factors involved
- Routes
- Transcoelomic
- Lymphatic spread
- Hematogenous spread
- Canalicular spread
- Organ-specific targets
- Metastasis and primary cancer
- Diagnosis
- Management
- Research
- History
- Etymology
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thumb|Squamous cell carcinoma occluding [[bronchus with metastasis to adjacent lymph node]]
Metastasis is the spread of a pathogenic agent from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body; the term is typically used when referring to metastasis by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, then, are metastases (mets). It is generally distinguished from cancer invasion, which is the direct extension and penetration by cancer cells into neighboring tissues.
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