A malignant tumor that has spread from its original (primary) site of growth to another site close to or distant from the primary site. [ NCIT:C36263 ]
Synonyms: metastatic malignant neoplasm metastatic neoplasm, malignant metastatic cancer malignant metastatic neoplasm
Term information
- MEDGEN:422475 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- NCIT:C36263 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- UMLS:C2939419 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
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Note that we currently treat secondary neoplasms as being neoplastic diseases that are derived from neoplasm; classes such as 'neoplasm', 'carcinoma' are implicitly primary. This may change in future.
http://identifiers.org/medgen/422475
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C2939419
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C36263
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mondo/sparql/qc/general/qc-single-child.sparql