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How would lung cancer (tumor) spread to the brain?
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Lung Cancer: Cells from cancer break off into blood , settle in brain, and grow into a tumor.
Answered 10/6/2017
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Blood vessels : The cancer grows into small blood vessels and sheds cells that move through the blood stream to distant sites, lung, then rest of body.
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