Can anyone tell me what Metatastic Foci is? I have searched everywhere?

Question

My mom has been going to doctors doing a ton of tests. The phrase Metatastic Foci keeps coming up. She will not give us any details (she doesn't want us to worry) I have been researching the net and can't find it anywhere. She has cells in her Stomach, lungs, and bone. I am assuming it is some sort of Cancer. Has anyone heard of this?

Answer 1

It's 'Metastatic Foci'.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&...

Tons of info on Google.

Answer 2

It is small areas where cancer has spread to.

It did not POSSIBLY originate in a cancer elsewhere in the body, it DEFINITELY is cancer that originated somewhere else and spread to it’s current area.

Answer 3

Frustrated,

The word metastatic refers to the transfer of disease from one organ or part to another not directly connected with it.

The word foci (singular focus) in neoplasia – refers to an abnormal cell growth that may progress to cancer - small groups of cells distinguishable, in appearance or histochemically, from the surrounding tissue and are indicative of an early stage of a lesion that may lead to the formation of a neoplastic nodule.

Thus, metastatic foci are cells that have possibly originated in a cancer elsewhere in the body and now appear in a different and unconnected organ / area.

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