When tumor cells metastasize, the new tumor is called a secondary or metastatic tumor, and its cells are like those in the original tumor. This means, for example, that, if breast cancer spreads (metastasizes) to the lung, the secondary tumor is made up of abnormal breast cells, not of abnormal lung cells. The tumor in the lung is then called metastatic breast cancer, not lung cancer.
My tumor has metastasized.
by Ashley Collins June 13, 2008
Get the Metastasizedmug. The full velvet length of him spring free and metastasized--it was a vision unlike any I’d seen in all my immortal years.
by FPP After Show August 12, 2025
Get the metastasizedmug.