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1 If cancer cells metastasize, they spread to other parts of the body and cause tumours to grow there.
These behave more aggressively, sometimes metastasizing, with cancer stage the best predictor of survival.
This condition is related to benign metastasizing leiomyoma, in which the masses appear in more distant locations such as the lung and lymph nodes.
These substances also may prevent certain tumors from metastasizing.
After treatment, the cancer went into remission, but there was a recurrence in 1995, eventually metastasizing to her lungs and lymph nodes.
Stomach cancer, for example, can remain asymptomatic while metastasizing.
They may be related or identical to metastasizing leiomyoma.
If a tumor lacks the ability to invade adjacent tissues or spread to distant sites by metastasizing then it is benign, whereas invasive or metastatic tumours are malignant.
In case of established cancerous dissemination it is postulated that the sentinel lymph node/s is/are the target organs primarily reached by metastasizing cancer cells from the tumor.
