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A member asked:
Can a local tumor in the lung spread to develop bone metases without affecting the rest of the lungs on xr?
9 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Yes: Small/oat cell carcinoma of the lung can disseminate widely in the body while the primary lesion may be too small to be detectable.
Answered 8/4/2012
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Lung cancer: Obeys no rules . Direct spread to bones without hilar or mediastinal mets is one broken relatively freqently!
Answered 7/9/2012
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Yes, it can: This happened frequently especially in small cell lung cancer, but also in non small cell lung cancer . A "localized" tumor can spread and metastasize to the bone or other distant organs-without affecting the rest of the lung.
Answered 8/4/2012
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