Metastatic

... stage, and very often has already started to metastasise. Even when the primary (original) tumour has been cut out, and there is no evidence of metastatic (secondary) tumours visible in the body by CT scans etc, metastatic cells can remain in the circulation of the blood/lymph, and lurk in tissues, ...

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... tumour is already readily detectable (ie, more advanced). Pharmas invest hugely into therapeutic drugs, but as we know, those designed to work at metastatic stage are highly unsucessful as nearly all metastatic cancer is lethal. Drug therapy is, largely, too little too late, and in the great scheme ...

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In general, the safety rules for patients suffering from advanced, metastatic cancer, whose disease has proved refractory to existing drugs and other therapies (eg radiotherapy, surgery), can be laxer because, to put it grimly, they are so 'up against it' ...

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... to solidify my contention that my Colon Cancer could have been caused by my Lung Cancer and not take on the characteristics of Lung Cancer. (3) Metastatic cancer may be found before or at the same time as the primary or months later. Nevertheless, when a new tumor is found in someone treated ...

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... all of those possibilities. Whatever the mechanism of dormancy, it's why cancer can recur so many years later - though, again, just what triggers metastatic proliferation is still unclear. One possibility is the involvement of the immune system.) Just why some primary tumours typically metastaise ...

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