What Is a Lung Nodule?
7. Metastases
One of the things that make cancers so dangerous is that they can spread to other parts of the body. In some cases, cancerous cells will travel in the blood stream from the original cancer to other parts of the body. When they eventually settle, they can begin to form another growth at their new location.
This is known as metastasis, and the new growths are known as metastases. They can be found on the lungs just as they can on any other part of the body. If a lung nodule is caused by metastasis then there is likely to be more than one nodule on the lungs.
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