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This is the report from the Pet Scan I did recently: “The finding suggest metabolic active right cervical nodol disease (level II) likely due to metastasis.”

Definition of Metastasis 

Metastasis: 1. The process by which cancer spreads from the place at which it first arose as a primary tumor to distant locations in the body.2. The cancer resulting from the spread of the primary tumor. For example, someone with melanoma may have a metastasis in their brain. And a person with colon cancer may, fortunately, show no metastases.  

Metastasis depends on the cancer cells acquiring two separate abilities — increased motility and invasiveness. Cells that metastasize are basically of the same kind as those in the original tumor. If a cancer arises in the lung and metastasizes to the liver, the cancer cells in the liver are lung cancer cells. However, the cells have acquired increased motility and the ability to invade another organ.

The ancient Greeks used the word metastasis to mean “removal from one place to another.” The plural of “metastasis” is “metastases.”

As you can read from the above definition, it simply means that the cancer has spread to the right cervical. and it at stage or level II. But the doctors after much discussion said that they will leave it for the time being as they cannot feel the node on the neck and they said it might not be cancer. Now they will wait and monitor for another and see the progress. I just hope the doctors are right about their diagnosis.