OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
CELL BIOLOGY
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cancer that spreads from where it started to a distant part of the body is called metastatic cancer. For many types of cancer, it is also called stage IV (4) cancer. The process by which cancer cells spread to other parts of the body is called metastasis.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most common type of cancer on the list is breast cancer, with 300, 590 new cases expected in the United States in 2023. The next most common cancers are prostate cancer and lung cancer. Because colon and rectal cancers are often referred to as “colorectal cancers, ‘’ these two cancer types are combined for the list.
Detailed explanation-3: -In metastasis, cancer cells break away from the original (primary) tumor, travel through the blood or lymph system, and form a new tumor in other organs or tissues of the body.