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Pulmonary metastasis

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Overview

Pulmonary metastasis refers to lung cancer that has originated somewhere else in the body. In other words, the primary cancerous tumor has spread to the lungs.

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