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Metastasis is when cancer spreads from where it started to other parts of the body.
means The spread of disease (especially cancer) from its original site to a new part of the body, where it sets up shop and keeps growing.
from From Greek 'metastasis' meaning 'change of place' or 'removal' — built from 'meta' (change, beyond) plus 'histanai' (to stand, to place). Ancient Greek physicians used the word simply for change or transition; it was later medicine, centuries on, that narrowed it into the clinical term for disease relocating itself to distant tissue.
- origin
- greek for change of place
- travel route
- bloodstream or lymph, like tiny commuters
- why deadly
- cause of most cancer deaths, not original tumor
- seed and soil
- cells prefer specific organs, not random ones