is spider cancer really cancer or is it a term used to describe how cancer will mastasize through a persons lymph nodes to spread through ones body at a quick rate
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Q: is spider cancer really cancer or a term used to describe how cancer will mastasize through a person
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1/27/09 8:07pm
Hi Debbie - Spider cancer is an obsolete term describing what a particular cancer looks like: a tumor with some vascular (blood veins) involvement, so that on scans it looks kind of like a spider. It's not a type of cancer, nor does it describe how cancer spreads. It's simply a description of a particular type of tumor. Hope this helps - PJH
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no man spider cancer is true it looks like a normal tumor but when they do a bio the cancer spreads everywher and will spread all over the body