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Quick question: How can you see if a tumour is a primary or a metastasis BC

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Quick question: How can you see if a tumour is a primary or a metastasis BC

What do you mean by "see"? A little context would help

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How do they diagnos if a tumour is a primary or if it is a metastasis. A friend of mine had a tumour in the colon and they found metastasis in the liver. How do they know that the tumours in the liver are metastasis and not primary. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Quick question: How can you see if a tumour is a primary or a metastasis BC What do you mean by "see"? A little context would help

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How do they diagnos if a tumour is a primary or if it is a metastasis. A friend of mine had a tumour in the colon and they found metastasis in the liver. How do they know that the tumours in the liver are metastasis and not primary.

Because primary liver cancer is relatively rare, and colon cancer common. Because microscopically, the cancer in the liver looks like the colon cancer.

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Thanks Steph, I could probably have figured it out myself. I have another quick question. A year ago I got the diagnose salivary gland cancer in the submandibular…… gland. I had both surgery and radiation and are now getting better every day. They said that tumours in this area usually don’t develop mets. How come? /BC

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – How do they diagnos if a tumour is a primary or if it is a metastasis. A friend of mine had a tumour in the colon and they found metastasis in the liver. How do they know that the tumours in the liver are metastasis and not primary. Because primary liver cancer is relatively rare, and colon cancer common. Because microscopically, the cancer in the liver looks like the colon cancer.

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Thanks Steph, I could probably have figured it out myself. I have another quick question. A year ago I got the diagnose salivary gland cancer in the submandibular…… gland. I had both surgery and radiation and are now getting better every day. They said that tumours in this area usually don’t develop mets. How come? /BC

The nature of the beast. Some cancers metastasise rarely, some metastasise very readily. Salivary cancer is somewhere in the middle, by the way

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Well I was lucky Thanx again/BC – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Thanks Steph, I could probably have figured it out myself. I have another quick question. A year ago I got the diagnose salivary gland cancer in the submandibular…… gland. I had both surgery and radiation and are now getting better every day. They said that tumours in this area usually don’t develop mets. How come? /BC The nature of the beast. Some cancers metastasise rarely, some metastasise very readily. Salivary cancer is somewhere in the middle, by the way

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