Metastasis is the characteristic of malignant tumors where cancer cells break away from the primary site, travel through the blood or lymph to distant locations, and establish new tumors (metastatic cancer).
Metastasis is the ability of malignant tumors to spread; cancer cells detach from the primary site, travel via blood or lymph to new locations, and form secondary tumors there.
| Front | What is metastasis? |
|---|---|
| Back | property of malignant tumors by which the cancer cells break away from where they were first formed (primary cancer), travel through blood or lymph to distant sites, and form a new tumor (metastatic cancer) there |
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