CELL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION
CELL DIVISION
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Question
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When cancer spreads to other parts of the body, it’s called ____
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Metastasis
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Benign
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Apoptosis
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None of these
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Metastasis. In metastasis, cancer cells break away from where they first formed (primary cancer), travel through the blood or lymph system, and form new tumors (metastatic tumors) in other parts of the body.
Detailed explanation-2: -The process by which cancer cells spread to other parts of the body is called metastasis.
Detailed explanation-3: -When breast cancer spreads to an area farther from where it started to another part of the body, doctors say that the cancer has “metastasized.” They call the area of spread a “metastasis, ” or use the plural of “metastases” if the cancer has spread to more than 1 area. The disease is called metastatic breast cancer.
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