The symptoms and signs of metastatic cancerdoi:10.1016/S0002-9610(41)90667-0Richard B. PhillipsElsevier BVThe American Journal of Surgery
If you have skin cancer, your skin specialist (dermatologist) or cancer specialist (oncologist) will talk to you about symptoms of metastatic disease that might require care in a hospital. What Exams and Tests Diagnose Skin Cancer? If you have a worrisome mole or other lesion, your primary-ca...
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Breast cancer can sneak up on you before you have any sort of clue as to what's going on. In part, that's because most women are on the lookout for a lump in their breasts — and not for other common indicators. That's a mistake, because while a lump is the most recognized sympt...
process of invading and spreading to other organs is called metastasis. Common metastatic locations where prostate cancer cells may eventually be found include pelvic lymph nodes, and bones. The lungsand thelivermay also show deposits of, or metastases from, prostate cancer, but that is less ...
also can grow and invade adjacent structures directly, often rendering the surgical removal of the tumor impossible. Cancers are named by the tissues from which the primary tumorarises. Hence, alung cancerthat travels to theliveris not a "liver cancer" but is described as metastatic lung cancer...
Most women experience lumps in their breast tissue at some time or another, usually related to the hormonal shifts that occur during the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and menopause.1Still, lumps can also be a sign of breast cancer. Knowing your breasts is an important way for you to be able...
pressing against another organ, causing pain. Sometimes, symptoms don't set off alarm bells until the tumor has spread (metastatic lung cancer), creating problems in other areas of the body. Because of this, it can take about 8 years for certain non-small cell lung cancers to be diagnosed...
Secondary (or metastatic) liver cancer occurs when the main cancer originates elsewhere in the body and deposits cancer cells in the liver. This type of cancer is named after the organ that it originated from. A common example of this is metastatic colorectal cancer, which is cancer of t...
Metastatic cancer (secondary cancer of the liver) begins in another organ and spreads to the liver, usually through the bloodstream. Common cancers that spread to the liver begin in the lung, breast, large intestine, stomach, and pancreas. Leukemia and Hodgkin's lymphoma may also involve the ...