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blood stasis

In traditional Chinese medicine, a condition described as slowing or pooling of blood, which may cause pain or other symptoms.

bone marrow metastasis

Cancer that has spread from the original (primary) tumor to the bone marrow.

bone metastasis

Cancer that has settled in bone, where it keeps the name of the organ it started in rather than the bone it now occupies.

brain metastasis

Cancer in the brain has far more often arrived from elsewhere than started there, and that origin decides how it is treated.

central nervous system metastasis

Cancer that has spread from the original (primary) tumor to the central nervous system (CNS).

cholestasis

Yellow skin, itching, dark urine and pale stools all trace back to bile that cannot leave the liver by its usual route.

CNS metastasis

Cancer that has spread from the original (primary) tumor to the central nervous system (CNS).

distant metastasis

Refers to cancer that has spread from the original (primary) tumor to distant organs or distant lymph nodes.

homeostasis

/ hoh-mee-oh-STAY-sis /

The maintenance of stable internal conditions within a living system.

in-transit metastasis

A type of metastasis in which skin cancer spreads through a lymph vessel and begins to grow more than 2 centimeters away from the primary tumor but before it reaches the nearest lymph node.

leptomeningeal metastasis

A serious problem that may occur in cancer in which cancer cells spread from the original (primary) tumor to the meninges (thin layers of tissue that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord).

liver metastasis

The liver filters blood arriving straight from the gut, which is why so many cancers place their first distant deposit there.

lung metastasis

Cancer that has traveled to the lung from somewhere else, keeping the identity of the organ it started in.

meningeal metastasis

A serious problem that may occur in cancer in which cancer cells spread from the original (primary) tumor to the meninges (thin layers of tissue that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord).

micrometastasis

Small numbers of cancer cells that have spread from the primary tumor to other parts of the body and are too few to be picked up in a screening or diagnostic test.

leptomeningeal carcinoma

Cancer that stops behaving like a lump and starts behaving like a fluid, settling wherever spinal fluid happens to flow.

meningeal carcinomatosis

One condition carrying at least five names, recognized by trouble that refuses to point to a single spot in the nervous system.

Abegrin

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer and other conditions.

cancer

Not one disease but hundreds, grouped by the tissue they start in, and it is invasion and spread that separate them from harmless growths.

carcinomatous meningitis

A serious problem that may occur in cancer in which cancer cells spread from the original (primary) tumor to the meninges (thin layers of tissue that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord).