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- How Does Cancer Spread? - American Cancer Society
How Does Cancer Spread? Cancer can spread from where it started (the primary site) to other parts of the body When cancer cells break away from a tumor, they can travel to other areas of the body through either the bloodstream or the lymph system This process is called metastasis
- Metastatic Cancer: When Cancer Spreads - NCI
The process by which cancer cells spread to other parts of the body is called metastasis When observed under a microscope and tested in other ways, metastatic cancer cells have features like that of the primary cancer and not like the cells in the place where the metastatic cancer is found
- How cancer can spread - Cancer Research UK
The place where a cancer starts in the body is called the primary cancer or primary site Cells from the primary site may break away and spread to other parts of the body
- How Cancer Spreads: Four Emerging Insights About Metastasis
Metastasis is the name for cancer that has spread from an initial, or “primary” tumor, to other parts of the body It’s also called stage 4 cancer The vast majority of deaths caused by cancer — as many as 9 in 10 — are caused not by an initial tumor, but rather by the impacts of metastasis
- How cancer starts, grows and spreads - Canadian Cancer Society
As a tumour gets bigger, cancer cells can spread to surrounding tissues and structures by pushing on normal tissue beside the tumour Cancer cells also make enzymes that break down normal cells and tissues as they grow
- How Cancer Spreads (Metastasis) - CancerQuest
Metastasis is the process by which cancer cells spread to distant locations in the body The majority of death associated with cancer is due to the metastasis of the original tumor cells
- How Cancer Cells Spread in the Body - NIH News in Health
When cancer spreads, it’s called metastasis In metastasis, cancer cells break away from where they first formed, travel through the blood or lymph system, and form new tumors in other parts of the body
- Cancer Cell Biology: How Cancer Starts, Grows, and Spreads
The spread of cancer from its original site to other parts of the body is known as metastasis It begins with cancer cells detaching from the primary tumor, which requires them to lose their normal cell-to-cell adhesion
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