Talk:Metastasis

The initial version of this article was a cut-and paste from these three public domain U.S. Federal Government sources:

• http://www.nidr.nih.gov/Spectrum/NIDCR3/3grasec7.htm
• http://press2.nci.nih.gov/sciencebehind/angiogenesis/angio02.htm
• http://www.nci.nih.gov/dictionary/db_alpha.aspx?expand=M

And now several other public domain articles -- see the revision history.

That's the first cut at this article done. Does anyone want to copyedit and fact check it?

cleanup

Slightly modified the intro and cleaned up a little [1]. Removed the following:

Tumors are classified as either benign or malignant. Malignant tumors can spread by invasion and metastasis while benign tumors cannot (and only grow locally). The term "cancer" is often reserved for malignant tumors, although in common usage, many premalignant tumors are also referred to as cancers. Some tumors with benign histology can behave as malignant tumors, such as in brain tumors, where treatment has to be as aggressive as with malignant disease.

Because it does not appear to be wholly relevant to metastasis. Besides, the whole The term "cancer" is often reserved...... and Some tumors with benign histology can behave as malignant tumors... sounds odd.

Tumor angiogenesis is the proliferation of a network of blood vessels that penetrates into cancerous growths, supplying nutrients and oxygen and removing cellular waste products. Tumor angiogenesis actually starts with cancerous tumor cells releasing molecules that send signals to surrounding normal host tissue. This signaling activates certain genes in the host tissue that, in turn, make proteins to encourage growth of new blood vessels.

Again this is not really relevant to metastasis. A note about angiogenesis is enough. - TwoOars (Rev) 08:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Broken Link

"Metastasis photo at the Atlas of Pathology website" link does not work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bchamp (talk • contribs) 13:22, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Why is it called metastasis?

Just curious. 204.52.215.107 (talk) 15:49, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

• Metastasis reminds me of the "spotting" or "jumping" of a wildfire or leapfrog development as a form of suburbanization, by the way - same stuff, different phenomena.

Arrows

There should be arrows pointing to the tumor (or whatever else) in the images in the article. It would make the image more understandable. Nitric Oxide (talk) 13:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)NO

CT?

Say or link to what "CT" stands for. Jidanni (talk) 03:04, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

CT?

Say or link to what "CT" stands for. Jidanni (talk) 03:05, 4 September 2008 (UTC)no way

cancer

1)cancer,sounds obvius but curing or control