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To: ConservativeMind

I feel like this is going round in circles.

Stating METASTATIC Prostate cancer is DIFFERENT from just “prostate cancer”.

This seems to be conflating the 2 definitions. All metastatic PC is PC, but not all PC is metastatic.

So I’m confused how this “old adage” is really wrong?


12 posted on 10/24/2021 9:28:18 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

It’s confusing. When someone says metastatic cancer of any kind, you need to establish if the sort of cancer they’re speaking of is a primary cancer that has spread and therefore become metastatic or if the metastatic cancer is itself the metastatic cancer originating from another (primary) source. People use the term metastatic loosely.


24 posted on 10/24/2021 9:44:01 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Finding it before it’s metastatic is difficult. It often appears as just a benign prostate enlargement.


35 posted on 10/24/2021 9:58:06 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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