Not metastases: Paraneoplastic syndromes result either from substances produced by a tumor (perhaps a pituitary adenoma making prolactin and causing impotence) or from the immune response against a tumor attacking healthy cells (perhaps the attack on an oat cell lung cancer causing blindness). They have nothing to do with whether the tumor has metastasized.
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