Secondary Brain Tumors
When cancer spreads
from its original place to another part of the body, the new tumor has the same
kind of abnormal cells and the same name as the primary tumor. Cancer
that spreads to the brain from another part of the body is different from a
primary brain tumor. When cancer cells
spread to the brain from another organ (such as the lung or breast), doctors
may call the tumor in the brain a
secondary
tumor or metastatic tumor. Secondary tumors in the brain are far more
common than primary brain tumors.
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