Metastatic Carcinoma (Cancer)?
Sunday, April 25th, 2010 at
6:51 pm
Can anyone, in layman’s terms explain Metastatic Carcinoma to me. I know carcinoma means cancer but i can’t get a clear definition as to what "Metastatic Carcinoma" is. Thank you in advance, 10 pts to BA.
Or if anyone has a good resource where i could find good info on it, that would be appreciated.
Metastatic carcinoma is a type of cancer that has the ability to spread throughout the body by using the blood or the lymphatic system to spread to parts of the body that are distant from the original site.In other words a skin cancer can become a lung cancer when the skin cancer metastasizes.
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Metastatic carcinoma is a type of cancer that has the ability to spread throughout the body by using the blood or the lymphatic system to spread to parts of the body that are distant from the original site.In other words a skin cancer can become a lung cancer when the skin cancer metastasizes.
References :
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/metastatic.html
Metastatic cancer has spread from where it started, for example breast cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes, colon cancer than has spread to the liver, etc. A metastatic tumor is one that has grown somewhere other than where the cancer started.
References :
Carcinoma implies malignancy arising from an epithelial origin, which is most of the common organ cancers- as opposed to melanoma, sarcoma, lymphoma, myeloma, leukemia for example.
Metastatic implies the cancer has spread away from where it started. As a point of clarification, when a cancer spreads to another site, it does not become that site’s cancer- breast cancer that goes to the lungs is not now lung cancer, but rather breast cancer in the lungs. just like when you move, you take your name with you.
Blessings
References :
Cancer doc