Metastatic Cancer Fact Sheet - National Cancer Institute

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Metastatic Cancer Fact Sheet - National Cancer Institute

Metastatic Cancer

Key Points

• Metastatic cancer is cancer that has spread from the place where it first started to another place in the body.
• Metastatic cancer has the same name and same type of cancer cells as the original cancer.
• The most common sites of cancer metastasis are, in alphabetical order, the bone, liver, and lung.