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What is metatisize disease?

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Cancer: Metastatic disease is the ability a cancer has to spread. A cancer starts at one location and by usually blood or lymphatic system moves to another area of the body and starts to grow . Example a patient with colon cancer and disease found in liver. Breast cancer and prostate cancers frequently metastasize to bone.

Answered 11/16/2012

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Dr. Marianna Post answered

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Is that what you ask: Not sure if that is what you are asking, but the metastatic disease is when you have cancerous tumor and it is spreading to other areas of your body, te new tumors that are seeding out from main one called metastasis.

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