A tumor that has spread from its original (primary) site of growth to another site, close to or distant from the primary site. Metastasis is characteristic of advanced malignancies, but in rare instances can be seen in neoplasms lacking malignant morphology. [ NCIT:C3261 ]

Synonyms: metastatic disease metastatic tumor metastatic tumour metastatic neoplasm

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Term information

database cross reference
  • EFO:0009709 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
  • ICDO:8000/6 (NCIT:C3261)
  • MEDGEN:422476 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
  • UMLS:C2939420 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
  • NCIT:C3261 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
Subsets

otar

UK spelling synonym
metastatic tumour

comment

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.

exactMatch

http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C2939420

http://identifiers.org/medgen/422476

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C3261

id

MONDO:0024883