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in-transit metastasis (in-TRAN-zit meh-TAS-tuh-sis)

 A type of metastasis in which skin cancer spreads through a lymph vessel and begins to grow more than 2 centimeters away from the primary tumor but before it reaches the nearest lymph node.

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